Linked from Railway Preservation News; cosmetic restoration of a 1940s vintage Baldwin 4-8-4. Three engines in the order, including this one, were intended for passenger service, and were delivered in this different paint scheme:
http://server.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=29387
Other photos:
http://www.pbase.com/sammy1974/frisco_4500
General appearance is typical of modern Baldwin power, including the cab, dome shapes, air compressor shields, lacey valve gear (looking a lot like something from a PRR K4s or a B&O P-7 from almost 20 years earlier), and trailing truck design. This engine is also rolling on Baldwin's own design for a disc driver; don't confuse this with anything like a Box Pok (pronounced "box spoke") driver, this design of driver really is a pair of discs with holes in them; the discs touch only at rim and hub, all the space in between is just air. This was an attempt to produce a lighter drive wheel with improved counterballancing. Similar looking engines included 4-8-4s on the RF&P, fatter versions ran on the ACL, D&RGW (both numbered in the 1800 series), and MP. The MP engines were copies of the D&RG engines with some detail changes that made them better looking than the originals, the principle one being a traditional cab that was open at the rear, as opposed to the vestibule cab D&RGW ordered.
Enjoy--but this thing is so bright, I almost need sunglasses to look at it!
darn near put my eye out! ::) ::)
The Frisco sure had a flare for things. No color shot that I could find of this lady, but the design is priceless. This pacific is also from Baldwin, built in 1910. Not sure when she got dressed up for the prom.
http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/frisco/friscoline/images/photos/P00461.jpg (http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/frisco/friscoline/images/photos/P00461.jpg)
Old Timer
Bachmann Industries ought to hire me as a research librarian :-)!
The engine is one of a series streamlined for a train called the "Firefly;" beyond that, I don't know much about it, other than that I found of some Frisco engine pix, and one is of one a streamlined engine dated 1939. Perhaps there is a Frisco modeler out there who can help.
In the meantime, a quick search found a couple of links to Frisco photos.
http://condrenrails.com/Frisco/Frisco%20Steam/Frisco_1000_Steam_Loco_Pixs.htm
Here's one that looks like it's from the same place you found yours, dated 1938:
http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/frisco/friscoline/images/photos/p01362.jpg
Working back on the page takes us to a general link to the library:
http://thelibrary.org/
A jackpot!
http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/frisco/frisco.cfm
http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/frisco/friscoline/rolling.cfm
Steam locomotives!
http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/frisco/friscoline/steam01.cfm
I don't have the time to look at it now, but it looks like a place to explore. I wonder if there is other rail material there, including trolley lines in the area.
Have fun exploring, and let us know if you find anything in a line (i.e., USRA engines or something similar, and of course 2-10-0s) that could be a candidate for production by somebody.
A little more looking, and here is a writer in the Washington area with a regular column on railroads. Cool! I wish I had his job!
http://image.examiner.com/x-41880-Railroad-Examiner~y2010m5d4-Video-BNSF-helps-move-Frisco-steam-locomotive-to-new-home-in-Tulsa
Looks like stuff is available on a lot of roads.
http://image.examiner.com/x-41880-Railroad-Examiner
http://image.examiner.com/x-41880-Railroad-Examiner~y2010m3d22-St-Louis--San-Francisco-Railway--The-Frisco-in-the-hearts-of-her-fans
http://www.frisco.org/cmps_index.php
Enjoy.