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The ''Meteor'' was a named passenger train operated by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (a.k.a. SLSF or "the Frisco"). It ran overnight between Oklahoma City and St. Louis via Tulsa. The name was shared with a branch line ''Meteor'' running between Monett, Missouri, and Paris, Texas. Later this line was truncated to terminate at Fort Smith, Arkansas. These Frisco trains should not be confused with Amtrak's ''Silver Meteor''. The ''Meteor'' began early in the 20th Century; one engineer who joined the Frisco in 1917 recalled that the ''Meteor'' was already a well-known train at that time.〔Bob Foresman, “Bright memories of Tulsa’s ‘Meteor” Train,” Tulsa World, August 28, 1992, http://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/bright-memories-of-tulsa-s-meteor-train/article_4d777fe2-129a-5e9a-a0e0-9d0ef6c42319.html, Retrieved 6-10-15.〕 Initially the trains were pulled by Frisco-class 1300 locomotives, being high-wheeled Baldwin engines with 2-8-0 wheel arrangements.〔Bob Foresman, “Bright memories of Tulsa’s ‘Meteor” Train,” Tulsa World, August 28, 1992, http://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/bright-memories-of-tulsa-s-meteor-train/article_4d777fe2-129a-5e9a-a0e0-9d0ef6c42319.html, Retrieved 6-10-15. More precisely, 2-8-0s were Frisco-class 1306 engines, not to be confused with the Frisco-class 1350 locomotives which were 2-8-0s converted by Frisco to 2-8-2s in the WWII timeframe. See http://www.steamlocomotive.com/mikado/?page=slsf, Retrieved 6-11-15.〕 During the late 1930s and into the early years of World War II, Frisco-class 1500 Baldwin engines with 4-8-2 wheel arrangements took over the job.〔Bob Foresman, “Bright memories of Tulsa’s ‘Meteor” Train,” Tulsa World, August 28, 1992, http://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/bright-memories-of-tulsa-s-meteor-train/article_4d777fe2-129a-5e9a-a0e0-9d0ef6c42319.html, Retrieved 6-10-15.〕 Frisco-class 4500 locomotives, and specifically locomotives No. 4500, 4501 and 4502, being three of twenty-five Northern class Baldwin 4-8-4s built for Frisco during World War II, were later designated for use on the ''Meteor''. These locomotives were delivered in a distinctive zephyr blue, white and gray paint scheme with "Meteor" spelled out across the tender in bold red lettering. These three passenger engines also saw service pulling the ''Texas Special''. In 1948, Frisco 4501 still in its Meteor livery pulled President Harry S. Truman's whistle stop tour train through his home state of Missouri. When the ''Meteor'' was converted to use diesel locomotives, No. 4500 was re-painted into Frisco's standard black with gold striping and lettering and assigned to passenger trains such as the ''General Wood'' and the ''Will Rogers''. Engine No. 4501 resides at the Museum of the American Railroad, in Frisco, Texas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Museum of the American Railroad website )〕 The cosmetically-restored Engine No. 4500 resides at the Route 66 Historical Village〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Route 66 Village website )〕 in Tulsa, OK.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Route 66 Village advocates seeking fee waiver", February 23, 2012 )〕 The new streamlined, diesel equipped ''Meteor'' began westbound operations on May 14, 1948, with its first eastbound train departing Oklahoma City on May 15. After its maiden trip the president of the Frisco - in an interview - pointed to a glass of water in his private car filled nearly to the brim with water. "Not a drop spilled between St. Louis and Tulsa," he said proudly.〔Bob Foresman, “Bright memories of Tulsa’s ‘Meteor” Train,” Tulsa World, August 28, 1992, http://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/bright-memories-of-tulsa-s-meteor-train/article_4d777fe2-129a-5e9a-a0e0-9d0ef6c42319.html, Retrieved 6-10-15.〕 Frisco purchased the EMD E7 locomotives and Pullman cars for the ''Meteor'' at the same time as they purchased ones for the ''Texas Special'', so the two trains shared a distinctive look; bright red with corrugated aluminum side panels. Frisco bought sets of named cars for each train. ==Named cars== Named trains frequently had named cars; the Frisco named ''Meteor'' cars after cities and rivers. Not all cars may have been named, but the ones that were bore their names prominently on their side panels. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meteor (train)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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