Enid, OK: Frisco Roundhouse, Water Tower & Yard

Roundhouse: (Satellite) 

Railyard: (Satellite, the classification yard is intact, but most of the engine servicing is gone.)

Frisco Depot: (Satellite, it is gone)

This town has some big grain elevators. The Santa Fe Depot and the Rock Island Depot are extant.

Richard Crabtree posted four images with the comment:

Here we are at the Frisco Roundhouse and Yards in Enid, Oklahoma

Photo 1) Overhead View on the Frisco Roundhouse and Yards in Enid, Oklahoma

Photo 2) Sanborn Map of the Frisco Roundhouse and Yards in Enid, Oklahoma 1925 L.O.C.

Photo 3) Frisco Dual Spout Water Tank and Roundhouse and Yards in Enid, Oklahoma in 1930s

Photo 4) Frisco Roundhouse and Yards in Enid, Oklahoma with Frisco No. 1205 2-8-0 Consolidation (Baldwin 1907), No. 1284 2-8-0 Consolidation (Baldwin 1907), No. 805 2-8-0 Consolidation (Dickson 1900), No. 1285 2-8-0 Consolidation (Brooks 1910), No. 1257 2-8-0 Consolidation (Baldwin 1909), No. 1238 2-8-0 Consolidation (Baldwin 1907), No. 1623 2-10-0 Decapod (Richmond 1918), No. 711 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler (Brooks 1906), No. 1616 2-10-0 Decapod (Richmond 1917), No. 1620 2-10-0 Decapod (Richmond 1918) & Frisco No. 1241 2-8-0 Consolidation (Baldwin 1907).

Circa 1930s

Unknown Photographer

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Dennis Morse: The Frisco depot was just west of N Independence, north of Sante Fe's depot. The round house was further west where N Quincy and W Birch st is .Enid Concrete is located there now.
[Some comments point out that the Sanborn map has some incorrect street names.]

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We can see the telltale foundations for the turntable and curved wall of the roundhouse.

Satellite

Frisco had two routes that joined each other to go through town. And the Santa Fe also used their route through town.

1955 Enid East and West Quads @ 24,000

Both routes were branch lines.

1910 System Map via Frisco

Both routes were still intact in 1977.

1977 System Map via Frisco

EarthExplorer: Jun 24, 1954 @ 17,000; AR1VFT000010120

Raymond Storey posted
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