Still wearing their Frisco paint scheme, but with new BN numbers, SD45 No. 6672 (former SLSF No. 922) and GP35 No. 2569 (former SLSF No. 719) lead an eastbound train across the ICG, on April 14, 1981.
Screenwriter Simon Stephenson (‘Luca,’ ‘Paddington 2’) has alleged that David Hemingson's script for Alexander Payne's ‘THE HOLDOVERS’ plagiarizes “line-by-line” from Stephenson's own script, ‘Frisco.’
Frisco’s Flying Ebony at rest
The St. Louis-San Francisco named its E units for famous horses. Frisco E8 2012, Flying Ebony, waits with its train at Kansas City, as a UP E unit idles beyond. Bill Calvin photo