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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]
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).
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, 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 ...
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
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 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]
Hollis and Eastern Railroad (reporting mark HE) was a shortline railroad which operated in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The railroad's tracks connected Duke to connections with the BNSF Railway , Farmrail and Wichita, Tillman and Jackson Railway at Altus, Oklahoma .