St Louis - San Francisco Railway $500 bond 1960s (Missouri) - purple

St Louis–San Francisco Railway (Frisco) bond certificate with a great vignette of Greek god Hermes, known as the swift messenger, depicted with winged sandals/cap and the caduceus (snake-entwined staff) – automobiles, ship, and city scene in the background.  Issued and cancelled. Famous FRISCO logo printed in border color towards the bottom of the certificate. Dated in the 1960's. Vertical format. Horizontal folds from storage.  Measures approximately 10 inches wide x 15 inches tall.

PURPLE $500 denomination.

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The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, also known as the Frisco, was a railroad that operated in the Midwest and South-Central U.S. from 1876 to April 17, 1980. It was purchased and absorbed into the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1980.

The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway was incorporated in Missouri on September 7, 1876. It was formed from the Missouri Division and Central Division of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, interested in the A & P right of way across the Mojave Desert to California, took the road over until the larger road went bankrupt in 1893. After bankruptcy the Frisco emerged as the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, incorporated on June 29, 1896, which also went bankrupt. On August 24, 1916 the company was reorganized as the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway.

From March, 1917, through January, 1959, Frisco, in a joint venture with the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, operated the Texas Special. This luxurious train, a streamliner from 1947, ran from St. Louis to Dallas, Texas, Ft. Worth, Texas and San Antonio, Texas. The railroad merged into the Burlington Northern Railroad on November 21, 1980.

The city of Frisco, Texas was named after the railroad and uses the former railroad's logo as its own logo. The logo is modeled after a stretched-out raccoon skin (giving rise to Frisco High School's mascot, the Fighting Raccoons).

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