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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 ...
Oklahoma City – Ada – Atoka Railway: ATSF: 1923 1967 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Oklahoma City and Western Railroad: SLSF: 1901 1907 St. Louis-San Francisco Railway: Oklahoma City Junction Railway: ATSF: 1909 Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of the BNSF Railway: Oklahoma City Terminal Railroad: SLSF: 1900 1901 St. Louis ...
That railway ran from Denison, Texas to Baxter Springs, Kansas. [4] Ownership passed into the hands of the Muskogee Company in 1926, and the line was soon generating a profit. [2] [4] In 1929, the Muskogee Company acquired the Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Railroad Company and its subsidiary, the Oklahoma City-Shawnee Interurban Company.
The Territory portion was split between the Katy and the Texas and Oklahoma Railroad. [1] Most of the trackage in Oklahoma was later leased to the Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Railway in 1924. [ 1 ] By 1985 the Oklahoma trackage had been abandoned.
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 hobo, left, and the Hero Child talk on Oklahoma City's "The Polar Express Train Ride," produced by Rail Events Productions, on Nov. 10, 2022, at the Oklahoma Railway Museum in Oklahoma City ...
The entire line between Oklahoma City and Atoka was later abandoned. [2] This railway is not to be confused with another company of the same name, the Texas and Oklahoma Railroad incorporated in 1991. [3] That line originally had trackage in both Oklahoma and Texas, but has since been shortened to a route between Sweetwater and Maryneal in Texas.
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]