Tuesday, December 2, 2025

1876-1980 Frisco Railroad Overview

Frisco was the nickname for the St. Louis, San Francisco Railway Company.

1901 via frisco

1910 via frisco

It appears the Frisco used a partnership with C&EI to access the Chicago market.
<1941 via MissouriEncyclopedia
"This Frisco System map was created prior to 1941 as it does not show the extension to Pensacola, Florida. (St. Louis–San Francisco Railway Company Records (R0362), State Historical Society of Missouri)"

Its connections in Birmingham are SCL, so this would have to be after the merger of ACL and SAL, which was 1967.
Route Map (>1967) via frisco

1977 via frisco

Since this is a BNSF map, I presume it was at the time of the merger in 1980.
BNSF, this webpage also provides some history


This post was the motivation to find more complete maps of the system.
Chuck Mountain posted
Frisco Lines Map of Missouri n.d.



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