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Former railroad depot at Slick, Oklahoma, now a church, in October 2022. The standard-gauge, steam operated railroad, while primarily a freight carrier, did have passenger operations. [2] Three regular passenger trains ran daily in each direction between Bristow and Slick, and another operated daily between Slick and Nuyaka. [2]
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.
Railroads have been abandoned in the United States due to historical and economic factors. In the 19th century, the growing industrial regions in the Northeast, the agrarian regions in the South and Midwest, and the expansion of the country westward to the Pacific Ocean all contributed to the explosive growth of railroad companies and their rights-of-way across the entire country.
The Cimarron River Valley Railway (reporting mark CRVC) [1] was a short-line railroad operating over a 25.47 mile route starting from a junction point known as Camp and continuing into the City of Cushing, all in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The railroad began functioning January 1, 1985, and discontinued operations in April 1989.
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]
The Elroy-Sparta State Trail is the nation's oldest rail trail, beginning its second life roughly 50 years ago when Wisconsin purchased the abandoned Chicago & North Western Railway line to ...
However, never operated commercially. Was building from Sallisaw to McAlester, and hoped to use the abandoned works of the Kansas City, Oklahoma and Houston Railroad (see above) from there to Honey Grove, Texas. [189] Texas, Oklahoma and Northwestern Railroad - 1907 was grading between Weatherford and Taloga on a line to Woodward. [190]
The St. Louis, El Reno and Western Railway was a small struggling railroad, started by local business interests in the Territorial Capital of Guthrie, Oklahoma. The railroad was built to move freight and passengers from eastern connections at Guthrie, West to the huge Rock Island Railroad hub and system cross roads at El Reno, Oklahoma.