List of Oklahoma railroads#Defunct

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The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Common freight carriers

Passenger carriers

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Defunct railroads

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Ada Terminal Railway

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|ATSF

|1909

|1914

|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 Western Railway

|

|SLSF

|1902

|1907

|St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad

Arkansas Western Railroad

|

|KCS

|1899

|1904

|Arkansas Western Railway

Arkansas Western Railway

|ARW

|KCS

|1904

|1992

|Kansas City Southern Railway

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

|

|ATSF

|1888

|1895

|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

|ATSF

|ATSF

|1895

|1996

|Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway

Atlantic and Pacific Railroad

|

|SLSF

|1866

|1897

|St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad

Beaver, Meade and Englewood Railroad

|BME

|MKT

|1912

|1972

|N/A

Blackwell, Enid and Southwestern Railway

| BES

|SLSF

|1900

|1907

|St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad

Blackwell and Northern Railway

|BNR

|

|2000

|2006

|Blackwell Northern Gateway Railroad

Blackwell and Southern Railway

|

|ATSF

|1899

|1900

|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Buffalo and Northwestern Railroad

|

|ATSF

|1919

|1920

|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Buffalo and Northwestern Railway

|

|ATSF

|1916

|1919

|Buffalo and Northwestern Railroad

Burlington Northern Inc.

|BN

|

|1980

|1981

|Burlington Northern Railroad

Burlington Northern Railroad

|BN

|

|1981

|1996

|Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway

Canadian Valley and Western Railway

|

|ATSF

|1904

|1905

|Oklahoma Central Railway

Cheyenne Railroad

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|ATSF

|1916

|1920

|Clinton and Oklahoma Western Railroad

Cheyenne Short Line Railroad

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|ATSF

|1912

|1916

|Cheyenne Railroad

Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway

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|RI

|1887

|1891

|Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad

|RI, ROCK

|RI

|1947

|1980

|Enid Central Railway, Farmrail Corporation, Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, North Central Oklahoma Railway, Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad, St. Louis Southwestern Railway, Texas North Western Railway

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway

|RI

|RI

|1891

|1948

|Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad

Chickasha Terminal Railway

|

|ATSF

|1910

|1914

|Oklahoma Central Railroad

Choctaw Coal and Railway Company

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|RI

|1888

|1894

|Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad

Choctaw, Newcastle and Western Railroad

|

|

|1907

|1919/21

|N/A

Choctaw Northern Railroad

|

|RI

|1901

|1902

|Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad

Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad

|

|RI

|1894

|1948

|Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad

Choctaw, Oklahoma and Western Railroad

|

|RI

|1902

|1904

|Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway

Cimarron River Valley Railway

|CRVC

|

|1985

|1989

|N/A

Clinton and Oklahoma Western Railway

|

|ATSF

|1908

|1920

|Clinton and Oklahoma Western Railroad

Clinton and Oklahoma Western Railroad

|

|ATSF

|1920

|1948

|Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway

Cushing Traction Company

|

|ATSF

|1914

|1915

|Oil Fields and Santa Fe Railway

Denison and Washita Valley Railway

|

|MKT

|1886

|1903

|Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway, Texas and Oklahoma Railroad

Denver, Enid and Gulf Railroad

|

|ATSF

|1902

|1907

|Eastern Oklahoma Railway

Eastern Oklahoma Railway

|

|ATSF

|1899

|1907

|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Enid and Anadarko Railway

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|RI

|1901

|1903

|Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway

Enid Central Railway

|ENIC

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|1982

|1983{{Cite web |url=http://www.rrb.gov/pdf/bcd/bcd09-36.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-03-17 |archive-date=2010-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528040104/http://www.rrb.gov/pdf/bcd/bcd09-36.pdf |url-status=dead }}

| Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad

Enid and Tonkawa Railway

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|RI

|1899

|1899

|Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway

Fort Smith, Poteau and Western Railroad

|

|

|1915

|1919

|Poteau and Cavanal Mountain Railroad

Fort Smith, Poteau and Western Railway

|

|

|1899

|1915

|Fort Smith, Poteau and Western Railroad

Fort Smith and Van Buren Railway

|FSVB

|KCS

|1939

|1992

|Kansas City Southern Railway

Fort Smith and Western Railroad

|FS&W

|

|1899

|1923

|Fort Smith and Western Railway

Fort Smith and Western Railroad of Oklahoma

|

|

|1902

|1907

|Fort Smith and Western Railroad

Fort Smith and Western Railway

|FS&W, FSW

|

|1921

|1939

|Fort Smith and Van Buren Railway

Gulf Railroad

|

|ATSF

|1896

|1899

|Hutchinson and Southern Railway

Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway

|

|ATSF

|1884

|1965

|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Guthrie and Kingfisher Railway

|

|RI

|1899

|1900

|Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway

Guthrie and Western Railway

|

|ATSF

|1900

|1902

|Eastern Oklahoma Railway

Healdton and Santa Fe Railway

|

|ATSF

|1925

|1948

|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Hutchinson and Southern Railroad

|

|ATSF

|1889

|1898

|Hutchinson and Southern Railway

Hutchinson and Southern Railway

|

|ATSF

|1897

|1899

|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway

|

|MP

|1888

|1909

|St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway

Kansas and Southeastern Railroad

|

|ATSF

|1897

|1899

|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad

|

|SLSF

|1896

|1901

|Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway

Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway

|

|SLSF

|1901

|1928

|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway

Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad

|

|ATSF

|1914

|1925

|Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway

Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway

|

|ATSF

|1925

|1941

|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway

|

|ATSF

|1900

|1914

|Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad

Kansas City and Pacific Railroad

|

|MKT

|1886

|1899

|Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway

Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad

|

|KCS

|1893

|1900

|Kansas City Southern Railway

Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway

|KOG

|MP

|1919

|1970

|Texas and Pacific Railway

Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway

|

|SLSF

|1897

|1899

|St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad

Kansas, Oklahoma Central and Southwestern Railway

|

|ATSF

|1893

|1900

|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Kansas and Southeastern Railroad

|

|ATSF

|1897

|1899

|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Kingston and Choctaw Valley Railroad

|

|

|1898

|1901

|

Kiowa, Chickasha and Fort Smith Railway

|

|ATSF

|1899

|1904

|Eastern Oklahoma Railway

Lawton, Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway

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|

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|

|

Miami Mineral Belt Railroad

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|SLSF

|1917

|1950

|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway

Midland Valley Railroad

|MV

|MP

|1903

|1967

|Texas and Pacific Railway

Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad

|

|MKT

|1901

|1904

|Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway

Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad

|MKT

|MKT

|1923

|1989

|Missouri Pacific Railroad

Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad

|

|MKT

|1870

|1870

|Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway

Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway

|MK&T

|MKT

|1870

|1923

|Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad

Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad

|

|MP

|1910

|1919

|Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway

Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway

|

|MP

|1904

|1919

|Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway

Missouri Pacific Railroad

|MP

|MP

|1917

|1997

|Union Pacific Railroad

Muskogee Southern Railroad

|

|MP

|1902

|1904

|Midland Valley Railroad

Muskogee Bridge Company

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|MP

|1903

|1904

|Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway

Muskogee City Bridge Company

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|SLSF

|1901

|1903

|Ozark and Cherokee Central Railway

Muskogee Union Railway

|

|MP

|1903

|1904

|Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway

North Central Oklahoma Railway

|NCOK

|

|1982

|1985

|AT&L Railroad

North Texas and Santa Fe Railway

|

|ATSF

|1916

|1948

|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Northeast Oklahoma Railroad

|NEO

|SLSF

|1919

|1967

|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway

Oil Fields and Santa Fe Railway

|

|ATSF

|1915

|1941

|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Oil Fields Short Line Railroad

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|

|1916

|1923

|N/A

Oil Belt Terminal Railway

|

|ATSF

|1914

|1915

|Oil Fields and Santa Fe Railway

Okarche Central Railway

|OCRI

|

|1982

|1982

|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 and Santa Fe Railway

Oklahoma City and Western Railroad

|

|SLSF

|1901

|1907

|St. Louis-San Francisco Railway

Oklahoma City Junction Railway

|

|ATSF

|1909

|

|

|Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of the BNSF Railway

Oklahoma City Terminal Railroad

|

|SLSF

|1900

|1901

|St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad

Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad

|OKKT

|MKT

|1980

|1989

|Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad

Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Railway

|

|SLSF

|1917

|1919

|Northeast Oklahoma Railroad

Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Inter-Urban Railway

|

|SLSF

|1908

|1917

|Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Railway

Oklahoma, New Mexico and Pacific Railway

|ON&P

|ATSF

|1913

|1926

|Healdton and Santa Fe Railway

Oklahoma & Rich Mountain Railroad

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|1926

|1942

|N/A

Oklahoma-Southwestern Railway

|

|

|1920

|1930

|N/A

Oklahoma Union Railway

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|MP

|1911

|1912

|Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad

Okmulgee Northern Railway

|

|SLSF

|1915

|1964

|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway

Osage Railroad

|ORR

|

|1990

|2000

|Discussed on the Osage Railway page

Osage Railway (one of the Muskogee Roads)

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|

|1921

|1953

|N/A

Ozark and Cherokee Central Railway

|

|SLSF

|1903

|1907

|St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad

Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway

|

|ATSF

|1920

|1965

|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Poteau and Cavanal Mountain Railroad

|

|

|1923

|1931

|N/A (Owned trackage but never actually operated)

Poteau Valley Railroad

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|KCS

|1900

|1926

|N/A

Ringling and Oil Fields Railway

|

|ATSF

|1916

|1926

|Healdton and Santa Fe Railway

St. Louis, El Reno and Western Railway

|SE&W

|

|1903

|1923

|N/A

St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway

|

|MP

|1886

|1917

|Missouri Pacific Railroad

St. Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad

|

|SLSF

|1895

|1899

|St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad

St. Louis, Oklahoma and Southern Railway

|

|SLSF

|1895

|1901

|St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad

St. Louis – San Francisco Railway

|SLSF

|SLSF

|1916

|1980

|Burlington Northern Inc.

St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad

|

|SLSF

|1896

|1915

|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway

St. Louis and San Francisco Railway

|

|SLSF

|1876

|1896

|St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad

St. Louis, San Francisco and New Orleans Railroad

|

|SLSF

|1902

|1907

|St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad

St. Louis Southwestern Railway

|SSW

|SP

|1980

|1997

|Union Pacific Railroad

Sapulpa and Oil Field Railroad

|

|SLSF

|1915

|1917

|St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad

Shawnee, Oklahoma and Missouri Coal and Railway

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|SLSF

|1899

|1903

|Ozark and Cherokee Central Railway

Southeast Kansas Railroad

|SEKR

|

|1994

|1999

|South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad

Southern Kansas Railway

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|ATSF

|1884

|1899

|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Southwestern Railroad

|SW

|

|1990

|2007

|Abandoned its route west out of Shattuck, Oklahoma

Sulphur Springs Railway

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|SLSF

|1902

|1907

|St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad

Tecumseh Railway

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|RI

|1896

|1900

|Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad

Texas North Western Railway

|TXNW

|

|1982

|1987

|Railroad still exists but no longer extends into Oklahoma

Texas and Oklahoma Railroad (1991)

|TXOR

|

|1991

|1993

|Farmrail Corporation

Texas and Oklahoma Railroad (1902)

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|MKT

|1902

|1903

|Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad

Texas and Pacific Railway

|T&P, TP

|MP

|1967

|1976

|Missouri Pacific Railroad

Watonga and Northwestern Railroad

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|RI

|1900

|1901

|Choctaw Northern Railroad

Webber Falls, Shawnee and Western Railroad

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|

|1911

|1914

|Webbers Falls Railroad

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Webbers Falls Railroad

|WFRR

|

|1916

|1918

|N/A

West Tulsa Belt Railway

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|SLSF

|1909

|1922

|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway

Western Oklahoma Railroad

|

|RI

|1900

|1902

|Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad

Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway

|WF&N

|MKT

|1906

|1923

|Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad

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References

  • Association of American Railroads (2003), {{cite web|url= http://www.aar.org/PubCommon/Documents/AboutTheIndustry/RRState_OK.pdf |title=Railroad Service in Oklahoma }}. Retrieved May 11, 2005.

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