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The railway was organized July 1, 1909. [1] Its president and stockholder was W.E. Hawley of Hawley Engineering Company. [1] [2] Sources differ as to the purpose of the line: one says it was to connect the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (Frisco) with the Midland Valley Railroad; [2] another says it was just to connect the Frisco to the privately owned tracks of The Texas Company. [1]
West Tulsa Belt Railway: SLSF: 1909 1922 St. Louis – San Francisco Railway: Western Oklahoma Railroad: RI: 1900 ... Shawnee Traction Company; Tulsa Street Railway ...
Some services acquired by the Connecticut Company Waterbury and Milldale Tramway [1] November 19, 1913 October 29, 1933 ... Sapulpa Union Railway, and Tulsa–Sapulpa ...
An electric railroad between Stowe and Waterbury, connecting with the Central Vermont Railway, was authorized by the legislature of Vermont in 1865, 1872, 1888, and 1894. Not until 1897 were sufficient funds raised and construction started.
Passenger service on the west portion of the line ended in 1917, and in 1924 the line was abandoned between Meriden and the East Farms neighborhood of Waterbury. The eastern portion of the line was abandoned beyond a Meriden quarry in 1938. The remaining tracks near Meriden were gradually abandoned, with all rail operations ended by 1976.
Tulsa–Sapulpa Union Railway Company, L.L.C. (reporting mark TSU) is a Class III shortline rail carrier [1] which operates freight service between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Sapulpa, Oklahoma over 10 miles of track known as the Sapulpa Lead, and which also leases and operates a 12.9 mile section of Union Pacific track known as the Jenks Industrial Lead between Tulsa and Jenks, Oklahoma.
In 1925, the Midland Valley acquired the Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway, and the Muskogee Company purchased a third railroad Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Railway in 1929. [3] The most serious accident on the Midland Valley system occurred February 1, 1958. Westbound train 41 collided head-on with eastbound train 42 on the curve at Bokoshe ...
The Waterbury Branch is a branch of the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, running north from a junction in the Devon section of Milford to Waterbury, Connecticut. Originally built as the Naugatuck Railroad , it once continued north to Winsted .