The Frisco High Line

[arraial]

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Hi Dricketts your route is a Master piece you are really a Artist making layouts congratulations on the route details the felling on the pictures is like to see a oil painting.:wave:
arraial

 

[dricketts]

Watching Frisco #108 traveling North crossing the floodplain where the Osage River and Gailinipper Creek meet.

 

[dricketts]

I caught a SLSF train pulling a short load of 2 bay covered hoppers. I'm standing at Galinipper Creek looking south between mile marker 114 & 115. This is one of only two pony truss, trestle bridges on the High Line's official bridge records. This is bridge # 114.4.

 

[dricketts]

Two Frisco F7's pull a string of 40ft boxcars through St. Clair County, Mo. at dusk.

 

[dricketts]

Two Frisco F7 units and one B unit move a heavy consist of limestone to the Cliquot siding.

Thanks to n8phu (Chris) for adding these Frisco units in their pre 1960's paint scheme to his website. He did an awesome job on these skins!

 

[Euphod]

Lot's of great screens Derrick! It's looking like a great route!

 

[Carfreak4]

Where do you find such fantastic pony truss bridges, dricketts? Your route is truly a work of art; I love the scenes you create with your shots, not to mention the beautiful skies! Great work.

 

[dricketts]

Lot's of great screens Derrick! It's looking like a great route!

Thanks Ed. Much appreciated.

Where do you find such fantastic pony truss bridges, dricketts? Your route is truly a work of art; I love the scenes you create with your shots, not to mention the beautiful skies! Great work.

I don't have the kuid in front of me now but it's by author bendorsey. He has a ton of stuff on the DLS. Bridges are his specialty. You can also search for "pony truss".

If you have trouble finding it let me know and I can post the kuid for that specific bridge.

 

[Enzo1]

You have acomplished something you did not even know you did! I always thought that SLSF was boring, but with your route, it makes me want to go make a route and run Frisco trains on it! Great job!

 

[kamran]

glad to see some great screenshots

 

[dricketts]

You have acomplished something you did not even know you did! I always thought that SLSF was boring, but with your route, it makes me want to go make a route and run Frisco trains on it! Great job!

Boring? How can you say any railroad is boring? :hehe:

 

[dricketts]

Three Bridges over the Osage River

In the very far distance is the KCCS (Kansas City, Clinton, & Springfield) railroad. In the middle is the SLSF. Then finally a one lane bridge originally built for wagons.

The Osceola dam on the north side of the SLSF bridge.

 

[dricketts]

SLSF #33 spots two B units at the Weaubleau MFA Mill siding. They'll be needed later tonight on a limestone quarry job.

 

[Adamovic]

Looking good dricketts! Keep up the great work!

 

[dricketts]

Thanks everyone for the great comments.

I actually got quite a bit done today even though I'm still out of town for Christmas. I applied ground textures and trees to several miles of the route that only had grade and track. Wow! A few hours of the that will drive the boring meter up for sure. Nothing worthy of a new screenshot yet...

Now off the the fun stuff. Details, details, and then I'll look for some more details I missed.

 

[n8phu]

Looking good!

 

[dricketts]

More MKT

A MKT train travels through Clinton from St. Louis. Full of party favors... Manufacturers Railway Company (MRS) was Anheuser Busch's refrigerator car line. At times during the 40's and 50's, a MKT train nearly one hundred MRS cars long could be seen traveling through this location.

 

[dricketts]

A Katy GP7 spots a MRS (Manufactures Railway Company) refer full of Budweiser products at Crome, W.F., & Company wholesale groceries.

 

[Rail4Pete]

Absolutely beautiful ! You really know how to do realistic looking route !

Rail4Pete

 

[kamran]

stunning beauty
especially for the boxcar