Frisco's "The Black Gold Champion" train No. 517, southbound, headed by Diesel locomotive No. 2022,
arriving at Dallas Junction, which is the wye near Irving, Texas, on June 18, 1953. Click to enlarge.
(Plummer, Roger S. ["The Black Gold" arriving in Dallas], photograph, June 18, 1953; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth28790/m1/1/: accessed March 24, 2023), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Museum of the American Railroad.)
BLACK GOLD
The Black Gold was a passenger train operated jointly by the St. Louis - San Francisco Railway (FRISCO) and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (KATY) between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Fort Worth, Texas. The train was inaugurated on January 23, 1938 and continued until January 18, 1960.
Frisco's "The Black Gold" train No. 517, southbound, headed by Engine No. 1039, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, arriving in Dallas from Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1950.
(Plummer, Roger S. ["The Black Gold" arriving in Dallas], photograph, 1950; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth28793/m1/1/: accessed March 24, 2023), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Museum of the American Railroad.)
A Frisco timetable from 1959 showing the Black Gold.
(Frisco Railroad, via W. Lenheim Collection)
