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Utah Central Railway Extension - the narrow gauge Utah Central Railway (1890-1897), which was nothing to do with the Utah Central Railroad (1869–1881), was building an extension from Park City eastwards to Moon's Mill 1890, and had laid track before it went bankrupt in 1893 and work was abandoned. Proposed to the Colorado state line, 17.5 ...
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway, Texas and Oklahoma Railroad: Denver, Enid and Gulf Railroad: ATSF: 1902 1907 Eastern Oklahoma Railway: Eastern Oklahoma Railway: ATSF: 1899 1907 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Enid and Anadarko Railway: RI: 1901 1903 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway: Enid Central Railway: ENIC 1982 1983 [1]
Pages in category "Closed railway lines in the United States" The following 117 pages are in this category, out of 117 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
An abandoned branch of the Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway, England Example of conversion of part of an abandoned railway line to a regenerated habitat. An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways, closed railways, former railway lines, or derelict railway lines. Some have ...
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (CO) Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CBQ) Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (MILW) Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW) Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (RI) Chicago and North Western Transportation Company (CNW) Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw Railroad; Cincinnati, Saginaw, and ...
The BM&E started as an effort by the citizens of Beaver, Oklahoma to ensure survival of their town by getting it connected to the railroad grid. [1] It was initiated at a town meeting on December 28, 1911, after the Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway (WF&NW), a subsidiary of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (MKT), declined to build to their locale. [1]
Still losing money, the railroad filed for abandonment of its line on August 21, 1923. [2] By a decision of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission dated December 18, 1923, its last day of operation was December 31, 1923, the abandonment being effective January 1, 1924. [2] [5] The rails were removed in July 1924. [5] There is a postscript.
[1] [2] Starting from a connection with the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway at Bristow and heading generally southeast, [2] [3] the line was built in 1920 through the Bristow oil field to Slick, Oklahoma, about 12 miles, [1] [4] where a large depot was constructed to handle the crowds that flocked to Slick to "get rich from the gushing black gold."