{"id":717,"date":"2012-03-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=717"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:53:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:53:10","slug":"frisco-4500-route-66-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Frisco 4500 &#8211; Route 66 Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>True Confession Monday today. Mine is, I have a thing for trains. <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.route66village.org\/Route_66_Village\/Route_66_Village.html\">Route 66 Village<\/a><\/b> in west Tulsa &nbsp;has just the one for me. The Frisco 4500.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6869555264\/\" title=\"IMG_8246 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_8246\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/6869555264_8425f6910a-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1942. It is huge! 500,000 pounds!&nbsp;&nbsp;I found this locomotive during a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yogis-den.com\/2009\/01\/my-world-frisco-4500.html\"><b>geocaching expedition three years ago<\/b>.<\/a>&nbsp;It was parked in a remote area north of downtown as it was being restored by volunteers. It has since been moved to its present location for display.&nbsp;It is a long term project of the Sertoma Club of Tulsa.&nbsp;See SuperPizzaBoy? He is almost 5&#8217;11&#8221; (I can still take him though!) and is dwarfed by the wheels of the locomotive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7015666591\/\" title=\"IMG_8247 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_8247\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7015666591_51f57b9933-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They also have the Murray Hill, a solarium lounge car built in 1929.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6869538596\/\" title=\"IMG_8241 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_8241\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/6869538596_e9ffd8a17a-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They have an oil tanker and a caboose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7015818011\/\" title=\"IMG_8238 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_8238\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7015818011_745acea1de-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And what they claim is the world&#8217;s largest oil derrick.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6869644190\/\" title=\"IMG_8250[1] by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_8250[1]\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/6869644190_76fbf9597a-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.route66village.org\/Route_66_Village\/Route_66_Village.html\"><b>Route 66 Village<\/b><\/a> is a great stop on old Route 66.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <b><a href=\"http:\/\/ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Our World Tuesday<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True Confession Monday today. Mine is, I have a thing for trains. Route 66 Village in west Tulsa &nbsp;has just the one for me. The Frisco 4500. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1942. It is huge! 500,000 pounds!&nbsp;&nbsp;I found this locomotive during a&nbsp;geocaching expedition three years ago.&nbsp;It was parked in a remote area north [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,322,299,227,650],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-world","category-route-66","category-trains","category-tulsa-history","category-tulsa-our-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}