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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
However, never operated commercially. Was building from Sallisaw to McAlester, and hoped to use the abandoned works of the Kansas City, Oklahoma and Houston Railroad (see above) from there to Honey Grove, Texas. [189] Texas, Oklahoma and Northwestern Railroad - 1907 was grading between Weatherford and Taloga on a line to Woodward. [190]
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.
Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad: Oklahoma Belt Railroad: 1917 1944 N/A Oklahoma Central Railroad: OCR 1987 1988 N/A Oklahoma Central Railroad: ATSF: 1914 1942 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Oklahoma Central Railway: ATSF: 1905 1914 Oklahoma Central Railroad: Oklahoma City – Ada – Atoka Railway: ATSF: 1923 1967 Atchison, Topeka ...
Railroads have been abandoned in the United States due to historical and economic factors. In the 19th century, the growing industrial regions in the Northeast, the agrarian regions in the South and Midwest, and the expansion of the country westward to the Pacific Ocean all contributed to the explosive growth of railroad companies and their rights-of-way across the entire country.
The Oklahoma Central Railroad, ... was a railroad operating in the U.S. state of Oklahoma from 1907 to 1917. ... and Cole to Purcell was abandoned in 1964.
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 ...
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).