I know there must be someone out there with some pix and facts about the NEO. This short line once ran over 100 miles of track in Kansas and Oklahoma and had one of the nicest paint schemes on their fleet of four ALCO's and three home built cabooses I have seen. They were one of the first railroads to diselize and had some of the 'firsts' in the switcher market. Ad at one time they had quite an electric operation as well. How about sharing some of the pictures with us?
There are a few pictures in the book "Frisco In Color." (You probably knew that) ------------------ Ship It On The FRISCO! | IAMOKA.com
Leon and others, In searching through my archives (okay, the stuff I've crammed into boxes), I came across a couple of good reference sources for the Northeastern Oklahoma. The books "By Trolley Through the Countryside" and "When Oklahoma Took the Trolley", both by Allison Chandler, have great writeups on not only the diesel locomotives, but the electric motors and interurban cadr the Ore Line used to ferry miners to & from work at the many lead & zinc mines operated in the area. I'm modeling this area as the oklahoma & North Eastern, set in the 1970s after the mines played out. I'm modeling the line from Miami, OK to Baxter Springs, KS, with emphasis on the shippers in Miami, Baxter Springs, and also the EDEC power plant in Riverton (the premise being Frisco sold the ex-NEO trackage, as well as the carthage Branch from "Baxter" to Joplin, MO in the mid-1970s). My all-Alco motive power is blue & yellow, in deference to Northeast oklahoma A&M Junior College in Miami, and the yards at Miami and Baxter are named after famous folks (Owens Yard in Miami, after OU running back & Heisman Trophy winner Steve Owens, and Weaver yard, named after Joplin native & actor Dennis Weaver). I plan to repaint one Alco in the NEO colors, and am modeling an NEO caboose, the article of which is in an old FMIG newsletter. ------------------ Ship IT on the Frisco! Bob T. http://hometown.aol.com/slsf1630/myhomepage/profile.html
i too am a fan of the neo +kog railroads--finding info or books is almost impossible--any suggestions?
ive got to tell my uncle about naming a railroad yard after him,he will get a kick out of that for sure
The NEO RR history is described pretty well in the recent book TRI-STATE TRACTION, with many pictures and rolling stock rosters. As it was concerned with the mining, there are photos of the tracks and mines at schehrer2.homstead.com. I grew up in Miami, had relatives who worked for the NEO, and walked the tracks often. I loved their locomotive paint scheme (like the NYO&W S-2s.) Some photos from the newspaper are at the Picher mining museum (in the caboose outside.)
