Four Digit Frisco - Post BN Merger Days

Except for its passenger power, the Frisco was a three digit locomotive number railroad. The period of absorption after the merger with BN in 1980, was brief. My friend Daryl McGee of Claremore, Oklahoma recorded this period on film. Claremore is located about 30 miles east of Tulsa, and is the location of the crossing of the old SLSF Tulsa-St. Louis main, and the old Missouri Pacific Kansas City-Texas route. This is about where the oak covered rolling hills of  northeastern Oklahoma begin, and the Frisco had a roller coaster profile east of town.