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The Osage Railway (/ ˈ oʊ s eɪ dʒ / OH-sayj) was incorporated in 1921 to accommodate traffic from the oil fields located in the Osage Nation. [1] The first part of its mainline was constructed in 1922 from a connection with the Midland Valley Railroad at Foraker, Oklahoma , to the town of Shidler, Oklahoma , about 10 miles southwest.
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]
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.
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]
Oklahoma's first and largest state park, Lake Murray State Park surrounds its namesake lake and consists of 12,500 acres. You can stay at the park with RV and tent campgrounds, cabins and the lodge.
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]
Berry, Shelley, Small Towns, Ghost Memories of Oklahoma: A Photographic Narrative of Hamlets and Villages Throughout Oklahoma's Seventy-seven Counties (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 2004). Blake Gumprecht, "A Saloon On Every Corner: Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma Territory, 1889-1907," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 74 (Summer 1996).
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