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EAGLE TEXAS then from Midwest City to owned tracks from Pawnee to Stillwater, They own trackage from Sapulpa that they purchased in 2014. Snyder to Mustang connecting through OKC the The The the headwaters of the Arkansas River Navigation System, in 1971. Arkansas River Navigation System, in 1971. the headwaters of Switching engines move cars to the loading platforms where large provide rail access. The BNSF and SKOL cranes work the barges. The railyard that services this inland port and its barges traveling along This vital shipping link Arkansas River Navigation System. the allows Oklahoma access to the growing world transport market. . SKOL

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SKOL TEXAS EAGLE Northwestern Oklahoma Railroad Kansas City Southern Railway lines providing freight service to western Oklahoma since 1981. Farmrail also operates the 186 miles of In 2013 they purchased the Sunbelt Line they‘d leased for decades. The borders of Oklahoma and Arkansas out of Missouri and Kansas. borders of Oklahoma and and Louisiana, it links major ports along the Texas Continuing into eastern cities and forest industry. Gulf of Mexico with Oklahoma’s The spur providing oil field suppliers rail shipping across northwestern The Oklahoma. across the Red River to tip of panhandle. Texas ran from of southeastern just east of the Arkansas border. Arkansas border. just east of the connects Oklahoma’s shortlines and connects Oklahoma’s KCS

, out of Hugo, Oklahoma provides rail CHIEF Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern Railroad Texas, Union Pacific Railroad The It links the area to other service along the eastern Red River Valley. Arkansas, south major carriers going north in Oklahoma, east Texas. area and cities in northeastern into the Dallas/Fort Worth The Oklahoma serves forestry and timber related industries around McCurtain County linking up with its sister railroad, the De Queen & Eastern, connecting to the major carriers to US markets west of the Mississippi. Its “unit train” approach uses 100+ cars to optimize fuel, car usage and destina- tion options for the most economic means of transporting freight. The . SOUTHWEST

Heartland Flyer AMTRAK is one of the largest BNSF is a commercial route that operates over former Chicago, engine pulling a ”shipping container” Tulsa Sapulpa Union Railway Tulsa Austin, Todd & Ladd Railroad Austin, Todd BNSF Railway Company train north of Guthrie, Oklahoma. The train north of Guthrie, Oklahoma. railways in the U.S. crossing more than half counties our Amtrak’s state and serves as the host railroad to A The communities light and heavy Tulsa connects Sapulpa and eastern tracks run First built as an interurban commuter train, it’s industry. most famous highways - U.S. Route 66. America’s parallel to one of The Rock Island & Pacific rail lines primarily on their trackage from full ownership of the Geary to El Reno Taking to El Reno. Watonga portion in 2014 ending their state lease-purchase successfully.

, with trackage in much Transportation Services Transportation Watco , they reach major Oklahoma cities. was built by philanthropist Charles

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Park Tisdale way South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad The Page, who endowed it’s passenger profits to the Sand Springs Page, who endowed it’s Home for Orphans & Widowed Mothers. It now serves as a freight to Sand Springs industrial parks. Tulsa line to and from downtown The moving freight Tulsa of southeast Kansas, provides a main link to that also comes through the Port of Catoosa. With their partner, Stillwater Central Railroad . They are partnered through . before being added to their growing Oklahoma business interests. act and emergency services for all of its 30 rail partners other line WATCO SKOL derived its name from derived its name from runs on part of an old Chicago South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad

TURNPIKE and the east along Shawnee to Oklahoma City trackage. UP took ownership of this once state owned trackage in 2010. took ownership of this once state owned trackage in 2010. Wichita, Tillman & Jackson Railway Tillman Wichita, Arkansas Oklahoma Railroad The two Oklahoma counties and southernmost destination of Wichita western OK branch line. This route was part of MKT’s Texas. Falls, WT&J Rock Island & Pacific line, operating east to west the rail line runs They also provide freight from McAlester to Howe, Oklahoma. service to the The

CREEK TURNPIKE section of track between OKC and Tulsa, previously leased via Tulsa, section of track between OKC and Stillwater Central Railroad

Sooner Sub TURNER in OKC have working train , a short line running west from recently purchased ODOT’s recently purchased ODOT’s SWLC Hollis & Eastern Railroad Oklahoma Railway Museum Altus, Oklahoma, was built in 1910 by the Fort Worth & North- Altus, Oklahoma, was built in 1910 by the Fort Worth Railroad) Texas western branch of the Katy (Missouri, Kansas & panhandles. Texas that once ran through both the Oklahoma and The engines, passenger cars and cabooses. Their rail memorabilia engines, passenger cars and cabooses. collection is kept in a 1905 train station. Open free to the public, August. April thru rides for a fee on alternate Saturdays in they offer The THE FRONT COVER: Newly acquired engines arriving for the THE FRONT which is one of the largest companies in United States maintaining 16 mechanical repair shops with contr providers. The providers.

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