Franklin Pacific Railroad Information

Superintendent: Gary Gross

Scale:                      HO scale

Era:                         Mid 1950's

Dispatching:           Verbal Authority

Control System:     Digitrax

Car Forwarding:     Car Cards and Waybills

Communications:    Verbal

                                (No Radios Required!)

Crew:   6

Franklin Yardmaster - 1 person crew
Road Crews - two 1 person crews
Local Crews - 1 person crew
Passenger/Express - 1 person crew
Dispatcher - 1 person

Layout:

     The Franklin Pacific Railroad (FP) was organized in 1876 in the town of Franklin, Missouri. The original owners intended to extend the railroad from St. Louis, Missouri through Franklin and the Missouri Ozarks to the Pacific Ocean. The railroad was never able to achieve its objective because of financial, political and competitive circumstances that occurred over the years.

     The Franklin Pacific Railroad (FP) is a shortline operation set in June 1955. The railroad connects the town of Franklin with the towns of Taylorville, Gravelton and Knobel and interchanges with the Missouri Pacific (MP), Kansas City Southern (KCS) and St. Louis San Francisco (SLSF) railroads at Franklin.

     The MP and SLSF have passenger and freight trains coming west from St. Louis and east from Kansas City and Springfield respectively, and the KCS has two freight trains that travel between Springfield and Kansas City. All trains work at Franklin yard. The FP has it's own passenger and freight traffic traveling daily between Franklin and the towns of Knobel, Gravelton and Taylorville. A local switch job services industries in East Franklin, Missouri.

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