Frisco 1625

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:19 pm

Sorry, no further info:

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... sf1625.jpg

SteveRG · **Joined:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:28 am **Posts:** 270

Is she a russian decapod?

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:58 am

Yes, a Russian. It is at the Age of Steam Museum in Dallas, one of five Frisco 2-10-0s saved. They were sold to the Eagle-Picher lead mine in Oklahoma about 1951, where they switched ore cars until about 1958. A sixth Russian is displayed at Spencer Shops, a former Seaboard locomotive that last worked on the Gainesville Midland in Georgia. There is said to be at least one of the WWI models preserved in the former USSR, plus a number of WWII copies that are quite similar. Built to five-foot gauge, those used in the US have wide tires to run on standard gauge track. It has been said that some of the WWII versions were supplied with an extra set of standard gauge wheels for possible operation in satellite countries and I believe those operating in N. Korea into the 1990s were standard gauge.