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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Boulder-on-the Park is a three-story building at 1850 South Boulder Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [a] Originally built in 1923, it represents Commercial Style Art Deco architecture, It was designed by the Atkinson & Olston architectural firm and built by C. A. Sanderson & Son. [1] The building overlooks Veterans Park, south of Downtown Tulsa. [b]
Tulsa Union Depot, 3 South Boston Avenue: 1931: New Home of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall Of Fame, circa 2007. Often referred to as "Jazz Depot". Animal Detention Center (Tulsa SPCA), 2910 Mohawk Boulevard [2] 1931: Fairgrounds Pavilion, Tulsa State Fairgrounds, now known as Expo Square Pavilion: 1932: Leland I. Shumway: Tulsa Fire Alarm Building ...