SL to SF and Beyond
One of the very last tangible remnants of the Frisco in the Gulf Coast is this enormous former freight warehouse in Mobile, Alabama. A barely visible outline of the words "St. Louis San Francisco Railway" identify the warehouse as part of the old SLSF nearly four decades after the railroad folded into Burlington Northern.
The Frisco reached the Gulf Coast through its purchase of the Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pensacola Railroad in 1925 giving it access to Pensacola, Florida. Through an agreement with the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern in 1928, the Frisco expanded to Mobile. Frisco successor Burlington Northern continued to operate the former MSB&P and AT&N into the 1990s. Between 1997 and 2003, BNSF spun off its Frisco trackage south of Columbus, Mississippi to the Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway which later became a part of the Genesee and Wyoming empire.
SL to SF and Beyond
One of the very last tangible remnants of the Frisco in the Gulf Coast is this enormous former freight warehouse in Mobile, Alabama. A barely visible outline of the words "St. Louis San Francisco Railway" identify the warehouse as part of the old SLSF nearly four decades after the railroad folded into Burlington Northern.
The Frisco reached the Gulf Coast through its purchase of the Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pensacola Railroad in 1925 giving it access to Pensacola, Florida. Through an agreement with the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern in 1928, the Frisco expanded to Mobile. Frisco successor Burlington Northern continued to operate the former MSB&P and AT&N into the 1990s. Between 1997 and 2003, BNSF spun off its Frisco trackage south of Columbus, Mississippi to the Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway which later became a part of the Genesee and Wyoming empire.