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In 2014 the Avard Sub was upgraded with CTC, PTC (positive train control), longer sidings, and a maximum speed of 70 mph for all qualified intermodal trains. In February 2018, BNSF announced their intention to add a new siding to the Avard Sub near Hopeton, OK. [1] The work was completed by Millstone Weber in August 2018. [2]
The trackage of a connecting line, the Panhandle Railway Company, was acquired at a foreclosure sale in 1898, extending the line from Panhandle City to Washburn, Texas, which allowed connection by way of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway from Washburn to Amarillo, Texas. [1]
The Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad was originally created on May 29, 1980, after the demise of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad on March 31, 1980. [1] A subsidiary of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (MKT), it operated 767 miles (1,234 km) of the former Rock Island's Herington, Kansas, to Fort Worth, Texas, North-South line, as a cooperative venture with local shippers ...
The company, originally known as the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, completed its main line between West Memphis, Arkansas and western Oklahoma by 1900. In 1901 the CO&G chartered a subsidiary company, the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Texas Railroad, to continue construction west into the Texas panhandle, and by 1902 the railroad had extended as far west as Amarillo.
This included both the line between Sapulpa (near Tulsa) and Del City (near Oklahoma City), known as the Sooner Sub, [1] as well as a branch line from Stillwater to Pawnee (geographically separated from the other line leased). In January 2002, SLWC acquired from the BNSF, and began operating, 120 miles (190 km) of rail line from Wheatland ...
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The Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company was incorporated under Oklahoma law on July 28, 1910. [1] Its contribution to the effort was construction in 1910 of the bridge across the Red River to connect the Oklahoma and Texas segments of the system. [1] On December 11, 1911, it changed its name to the Oklahoma Union Railway. [1]
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