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4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (reporting mark SLSF), commonly known as the " Frisco ", was a railroad that operated in the Midwest and South Central United States from 1876 to November 21, 1980. At the end of 1970, it operated 4,547 miles (7,318 km) of road on 6,574 miles (10,580 km) of track ...
January 16 – United States – Chunky, Mississippi – Alabama & Vicksburg Railway passenger train no. 1 crashes in a creek. One person is killed with a few injured. 80 passengers were on board the westbound train. March 18 – United States – San Antonio, Texas – A Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad locomotive, Number 704 ...
1963 Chualar bus crash, Chualar, California; 32 killed plus 25 injured. Remains the deadliest U.S. traffic accident to date and California's deadliest to involve a train; also one of a series of events that led to closer scrutiny of migrant labor conditions and fueled the emergence of the chicano and farmworkers labor movements [177] [178]
On Friday, the weather service said that its damage survey team found evidence to confirm a brief, EF-0 tornado near UNT Frisco. Maximum winds were estimated at 85 mph, and the tornado’s path ...
August 23, 2024 at 8:34 PM. DENTON COUNTY, Texas - Three people were killed and three others were hurt in a major accident in Denton County on Friday night. Argyle police said at least six ...
Disposition. On static display. St. Louis–San Francisco Railway 1522 is a two-cylinder, simple class T-54 4-8-2 "Mountain" type steam locomotive built in 1926 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (SLSF), also known as the "Frisco". It was retired by the Frisco in 1951 and in May 1959 donated to the ...
Today, eight Big Boys survive, with most on static display at museums across the United States. One of them, No. 4014, was re-acquired by Union Pacific, and between 2014 and 2019 was rebuilt to operating condition for the 150th anniversary of the first transcontinental railroad. It thus regained the title as the largest and most powerful ...
On August 17, 1996, an 18-foot-long (5.5 m) motorboat wrecked into the ski stadium audience of 4,000 people and injured 22 of them. Those injured aged from 2 to 78, and four were in critical condition. The boat was a part of the Baywatch Ski Show and crashed after a mechanical failure.