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The Osage Railroad was abandoned in 1953. [2] In 1963, the Texas & Pacific, which was a subsidiary of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, acquired the other three lines. [2] The Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka was sold to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe that same year, while the others were consolidated into the Texas & Pacific. [2]
The Texas and Oklahoma Railroad (TXOR), created in 1991, ran between Oklahoma and Texas on rail purchased from the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF). Much of the trackage has since been sold or abandoned; however, the railway continues to exist as a shortline carrier operating between Sweetwater, Texas and Maryneal, Texas .
Oil Fields Short Line Railroad; Oklahoma Central Railway (1905–14) Oklahoma Central Railroad (1914–1942) Oklahoma City–Ada–Atoka Railway; Oklahoma City and Western Railroad; Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad; Oklahoma Railway Company; Oklahoma, New Mexico and Pacific Railway; Osage Railway; Ozark and Cherokee Central Railway
The Oklahoma City – Ada – Atoka Railway (OCAA) was formed from trackage from Oklahoma City to Atoka via Shawnee, Ada, and Coalgate, Oklahoma. [1] Atoka to Coalgate had been built between 1882 and 1886 as feeder to the old Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (Katy) main line, and Coalgate-Shawnee-Oklahoma City had been constructed by Katy affiliates, and specifically the first 40 miles ...
The last vehicle produced at the plant, a white Chevrolet TrailBlazer EXT, rolled out on February 20, 2006. The Oklahoma City Assembly plant was the first of 12 GM manufacturing plants that GM planned to permanently close by 2008, to match production with market demand. An estimated 521,400 GMT360 trucks were built at the Oklahoma City Assembly ...
The physical assets of that entity were sold June 30, 1904 to the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company. [1] In subsequent history, while the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company was merged into the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway (Katy) in 1922, the trackage between Oklahoma City and Coalgate was not part of the reorganized company.
An independent entity called the Oklahoma City Junction Railway was incorporated in Oklahoma on June 10, 1909. [3] [6] Its primary purpose was to operate a terminal (principally consisting of stock pens) in the stockyards district of OKC, but the project included 1.724 miles of mainline and 3.779 miles of yardtracks and sidings, and was built between April and October of 1910. [6]
The Automobile Alley Historic District was primarily developed as a commercial district just north of downtown Oklahoma City. During the 1920s Automobile Alley, A-Alley for short, was a popular auto row, home to more than 2/3 of the city's car dealerships for several decades in the 1900s.