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This is a map of the Arkansas-Oklahoma Railroad as of 2009, with other railroads in gray (Class I railroads in orange). Email me if you would like a copy of the GIS data I created (modified from Bureau of Transportation Statistics North American Transportation Atlas Data) or if you see any errors. Date: 1 April 2009 (original upload date) Source
The Arkansas–Oklahoma Railroad (reporting mark AOK) is a Class III carrier headquartered in Wilburton, OK that operates two segments of the former Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRIP) Choctaw Route that originally ran between Memphis Tennessee and Tucumcari, New Mexico.
The Fort Smith and Western Railway (reporting mark FSW) was a railroad that operated in the states of Arkansas and Oklahoma.. The railroad's main line extended 197 miles (317 km) from Coal Creek, Oklahoma (about 7 miles east of Bokoshe, Oklahoma) [1] to Guthrie, Oklahoma, with an additional 20 miles (32 km) of trackage rights over the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) between Fort Smith ...
The year 1890 saw construction of a branch line from a point variously known as Cherokee Junction or Greenwood Junction in Oklahoma back to Fort Smith, Arkansas, a total of 6.01 miles, thus giving the K&AV 170.64 total miles of road, including the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railroad trackage in Kansas which was sold to the K&AV that same year.
The A&OR also built, between 1898 and 1900, about 41 miles of track northwesterly from Bentonville through the town of Gravette, Arkansas-- where it crossed the tracks of the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad, later absorbed by the Kansas City Southern Railway— [5] and on to Grove, then in Indian Territory.
Oklahoma Central Railroad: Altus, Wichita Falls and Hollis Railway: MKT: 1910 1911 Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway: Arkansas and Choctaw Railway: SLSF: 1895 1902 name change to St. Louis, San Francisco and New Orleans Railroad: Arkansas and Oklahoma Railroad: SLSF: 1898 1901 St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad: Arkansas Valley and ...
The company, originally known as the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, completed its main line between West Memphis, Arkansas and western Oklahoma by 1900. In 1901 the CO&G chartered a subsidiary company, the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Texas Railroad, to continue construction west into the Texas panhandle, and by 1902 the railroad had extended as far west as Amarillo.
The Arkansas, Oklahoma and Western Railroad (AO&W) was a small railroad company in Northwest Arkansas, United States. It began operations as the Rogers Southwestern that reached Springtown, Arkansas (21 mi or 34 km southwest of Rogers) on August 15, 1906.