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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).
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 Midland Valley Railroad (MV) was a railroad company incorporated on June 4, 1903 for the purpose of building a line from Hope, Arkansas, through Muskogee and Tulsa, Oklahoma to Wichita, Kansas. It was backed by C. Jared Ingersoll, a Philadelphia industrialist who owned coal mining properties in Indian Territory (now part of the state of ...
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 Oklahoma & Rich Mountain Railroad was a logging railway running from Page, Oklahoma to Pine Valley, Oklahoma, about 17 miles. It began in 1926 and was abandoned in 1942. It began in 1926 and was abandoned in 1942.
An entity called the Clinton and Oklahoma Western Railway Company was chartered November 10, 1908 for the stated purpose of constructing a railroad from Clinton, Oklahoma to Guymon, Oklahoma, which is northwest of Clinton in the Oklahoma Panhandle, [3] as well as building southeast from Clinton to the coal-mining town of Lehigh [4] in southeastern Oklahoma. [1]
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]
Kansas City and Memphis Railway - took over the Arkansas, Oklahoma and Western Railroad and the Monte Ne Railroad in 1910. [320] The two predecessors proposed a line from Wagoner, Oklahoma, to Harrison, Arkansas. The KC&M abandoned the latter intention and began a trunk line to Memphis, Tennessee, from Cave Springs.