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Robert Bell built a miniature train around his Tulsa house in 1948 and, for a time, ran children's rides at the Admiral Twin drive-in. [4] In March 1951, he started the park at the Fairgrounds [5] with a small collection of rides and amusements. The amusements included a three-car train and a Shetland pony ride. The first adult ride added to ...
The City of Tulsa manages 135 parks spread over 8,278 acres (3,350 ha). [1] This includes 2 nature centers, 6 community centers with fitness facilities, gymnasiums and meeting rooms, 2 skate parks, 2 dog parks, 4 swimming pools, 66 miles of walking trails, 186 sports fields, 93 playgrounds, 111 tennis courts, 13 water playgrounds, 17 splash pads, 61 picnic shelters, 4 golf courses and 8 disc ...
Meteor The Meteor at left, with the Texas Special as diesel equipped trains and new colors. Overview Service type Inter-city rail Status Discontinued Locale Midwestern United States / Southwestern United States First service 1902 Last service 1965 Former operator(s) St. Louis – San Francisco Railway Route Termini St. Louis, Missouri Lawton, Oklahoma Distance travelled 631.5 miles (1,016.3 km ...
Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority, usually known as MTTA or Tulsa Transit, [a] is the public transit system operating buses and paratransit for Tulsa, Oklahoma.In existence since 1968, the system consists of 21 regular routes and 4 night routes, with two major transit hubs: Memorial Midtown Station at 7952 E. 33rd St. in Midtown Tulsa, and the Denver Avenue Station at 319 S. Denver across ...
The car was rescued from a Tulsa area scrapyard by Illinois Railway Museum volunteers and taken to that museum in 1967 on a flatcar. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Initially only the shell of the car remained, but following a 40-year-long restoration effort by museum volunteer Bob Kutella, Sand Springs 68 operated under its own power in 2004 and has operated at ...
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Downtown Tulsa is an area of approximately 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2) surrounded by an inner-dispersal loop created by Interstate 244, US 64 and US 75. [1] The area serves as Tulsa 's financial and business district; it is the focus of a large initiative to draw tourism, which includes plans to capitalize on the area's historic architecture. [ 2 ]
Tulsa–Sapulpa Union Railway Company, L.L.C. (reporting mark TSU) is a Class III shortline rail carrier [1] which operates freight service between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Sapulpa, Oklahoma over 10 miles of track known as the Sapulpa Lead, and which also leases and operates a 12.9 mile section of Union Pacific track known as the Jenks Industrial Lead between Tulsa and Jenks, Oklahoma.