The Frisco began its dieselization with the purchase of Baldwin VO1000s and Davenport 44-ton switchers. Thus the switchers as a whole have resulted in the broadest spectrum of paint schemes among Frisco diesels.
Paint Schemes:
The first switchers delivered were in a very patriotic paint scheme of blue car body with broad white stripe running horizontally around the middle of the unit with red lettering. The trucks and underbody were in a light gray or aluminum color. There are two variations in the lettering scheme.
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| FR-S1b Variation FR-S1b had Frisco Lines coonskin herald lettering and was applied only to the 44-ton units that were delivered beginning in 1942. |
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| FR-S2 A blue interim paint scheme between the blue with white stripe and the later black with yellow safety stripes. This scheme retained the Frisco Lines conskin heralds on both hoods. |
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| FR-S3 The black with white safety stripes scheme came next. This scheme retained the Roman Frisco Lines at first with conskin heralds on the front of the hood containing the unit number. |
| FR-S4 The black with yellow safety stripes scheme came next. This scheme retained the Roman Frisco Lines at first with conskin heralds on the front of the hood containing the unit number. Later the Lines was dropped. Still later the lettering changed to a block style. The number of safety stripes changed over the years, not necessaily with the lettering style. |