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Northeast Oklahoma Railroad
The predecessor rail lines which eventually came together as the Northeast Oklahoma Railroad (“NEO”) started as early as 1906, with some routes continuing until NEO was merged into the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad (“Frisco”) in 1967. At its maximum, NEO ran approximately 34 miles of track in the area of the Tri-state mining district of southeast Kansas, northeast Oklahoma and southwest Missouri, although NEO itself only had operations in Kansas and Oklahoma. History The Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Inter-Urban Railway Company was incorporated September 26, 1908 in Oklahoma, for the purpose of constructing a line from Miami, Oklahoma by way of Hattonville (later known as Commerce, Oklahoma) to Baxter Springs, Kansas, about 22 miles. The Miami-to-Commerce segment was actually built in the 1908-1909 timeframe, about 4.2 miles. In 1916, the line was extended from Commerce through Cardin and Picher to the mining camp of Century, Oklahoma, a/k/a Douthat, about 7.6 mile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma
Oklahoma ( ; Choctaw language, Choctaw: , ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northeast, Arkansas to the east, New Mexico to the west, and Colorado to the northwest. Partially in the western extreme of the Upland South, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 20th-most extensive and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 28th-most populous of the 50 United States. Its residents are known as Oklahomans and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City. The state's name is derived from the Choctaw language, Choctaw words , 'people' and , which translates as 'red'. Oklahoma is also known informally by its List of U.S. state and territory nicknames, nickname, "The Sooner State", in reference to the Sooners, American pioneer, American settlers who staked their claims in formerly American Indian-o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbus, Kansas
Columbus is the second largest city and county seat of Cherokee County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 2,929. It is located approximately 15 miles south-southwest of Pittsburg. History The first settlement was made at Columbus in 1868. The first post office in Columbus was established in 1869. Columbus was a railroad junction for the Saint Louis and San Francisco, and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas railroads. It was named Columbus by A.L. Peters, one of the European-American founders, for his hometown of Columbus, Ohio; the name thus indirectly honors Christopher Columbus, the explorer. Coal, lead and zinc were mined in the region. Columbus had a considerable trade in agricultural products, and its businesses included machine shops, grain elevators, flour mills, a cigar factory, bottle works (soft drinks), a canning factory, and an extensive brick-making plant. In 1875, Robert A. Long and Victor Bell formed the Long-Bell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas Railroads
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Kansas. Common freight carriers *Blackwell Northern Gateway Railroad (BNG) *Blue Rapids Railway (BRRY) *Boot Hill and Western Railway (BHWY) *BNSF Railway (BNSF) *Cimarron Valley Railroad (CVR) *Colorado Pacific Railroad (CXR) *Garden City Western Railway (GCW) *Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) *Kansas City Terminal Railway (KCT) *Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (KO) *Kaw River Railroad (KAW) *Kyle Railroad (KYLE) *Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad (MNA) *South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (SKOL) **Operates the Kansas Eastern Railroad (KE) *Union Pacific Railroad (UP) **Operates the Blue Rapids Railway and Wichita Terminal Association *V&S Railway (VSR) *Wichita Union Terminal Railway (WUT) Passenger carriers *Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad *Amtrak (AMTK) *Midland Railway (Kansas)#Ottawa Northern Railroad, Ottawa Northern Railroad Private *New Century AirCenter Railroad Defunct railroads During World War II, less p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Oklahoma Railroads
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Oklahoma Railroads
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Common freight carriers *Arkansas–Oklahoma Railroad (AOK) *Arkansas Southern Railroad (ARS) *AT&L Railroad (ATLT) *Blackwell Northern Gateway Railroad (BNGR) *BNSF Railway (BNSF) *Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) *Cimarron Valley Railroad (CVR) *Farmrail Corporation (FMRC) *Grainbelt Corporation (GNBC) *Kiamichi Railroad (KRR) *Northwestern Oklahoma Railroad (NOKL) *Port of Muskogee#Port of Muskogee Railroad, Port of Muskogee Railroad (PMR) *Sand Springs Railway (SS) *South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (SKOL) *Stillwater Central Railroad (SLWC) *Texas, Oklahoma and Eastern Railroad (TOE) *Tulsa Port of Catoosa, Port of Catoosa Industrial Railroad (PCIR) *Tulsa–Sapulpa Union Railway (TSU) *Union Pacific Railroad (UP) *WFEC Railroad Company (WFEC) *Verdigris Southern Railroad (VESO) *Wichita, Tillman and Jackson Railway (WTJR) Passenger carriers *Amtrak (AMTK) *Oklahoma City Streetcar *El Reno Heritage Express ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eagle-Picher
EaglePicher Technologies is a privately held American manufacturing company known for its battery technology, energetic devices, and battery management systems. The company started in 1843 as the White Lead Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. A merger with the Picher Lead Company of Joplin, Missouri occurred in 1906, becoming Eagle–Picher Lead, which evolved into Eagle–Picher Industries, Inc. and finally EaglePicher Technologies. With its merger with the lead mining company owned by Oliver Picher, it was the second largest producer of lead and zinc products in the world. The company has provided lithium-ion batteries to military aircraft and high altitude unmanned aerial vehicles. EaglePicher also developed the first human-implantable lithium-ion battery. The company has nine North American manufacturing and research and development sites and over 900 employees. History In 1843, the Conkling brothers, Edgar and Stephen J. Conkling, established a white lead factory, in Cincinnati, Ohi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Webb City, Missouri
Webb City is a city in Jasper County, Missouri, United States. The population was 13,031 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Joplin, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. Webb City also has a police department, a fire department, and animal control services. History Webb City (Webbville) was platted by John C. Webb in September 1875 and incorporated in December 1876, with a population of 700. The city was located on a portion of Webb's 200-acre farm, which he entered in February 1857. There, in 1873, Webb discovered lead while plowing. With the assistance of W.A. Daugherty, he sank the first pump-shaft in 1874. Webb then leased his land to Daugherty and G.P. Ashcraft. In 1876, the Center Creek Mining Company leased the land and began operations. Some 20 years later, 700 mines were located within the limits of Webb City and adjacent Carterville, and the district ranked first in the production of zinc ore. Webb aided the city in its material development. He donated land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwest Missouri Railroad Company
The Southwest Missouri Railroad Company was a rail carrier in the tri-state mining region of southwestern Missouri, southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma. An outgrowth of passenger streetcar lines with 94 miles of track, it became a smaller but full-fledged electric freight railway by the time it ceased operations effective May 31, 1939. History The beginnings of the railroad were as the Twin City Railway Company, a horsecar line (elsewhere called a mule road) between Webb City, Missouri and Carterville, Missouri organized by A.H. Rogers in 1889. That in turn was absorbed in 1892 by the Southwest Missouri Electric Railway Company, of which Rogers was named President. That electrified line was in operation by 1893 between the mining camps at Webb City, where the railroad was headquartered, and Joplin, Missouri. The line added Carterville and Prosperity, Missouri, and also expanded its road by purchase of other lines, namely the Joplin & Galena Electric Railway and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douthat, Oklahoma
Douthat is a ghost town in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States. Douthat is south of Picher. Douthat once had a post office, which opened on March 17, 1917. The community was named after Zahn A. Douthat, the owner of the townsite. Douthat is now abandoned and part of the Tar Creek Superfund site. Douthat constituted the west part of a larger mining camp known as Century, Oklahoma. A newspaper, The Independent, also called the Douthat Independent, referred to the town in its first issue published July 5, 1917 as "Douthat (Century)", and indicated the place was the "center of the Quapaw Miami mining district—the greatest lead and zinc mining country in the world excepting none". The paper used both names going forward, stating in an advertisement in the second edition that the business in question was opposite the O.K.& M. train station in Douthat, but editorializing in the third edition that in regard to needed but uninstalled railroad crossings, "Century is full of promi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas
Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kaw people, Kansa people. Its List of capitals in the United States, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its List of cities in Kansas, most populous city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita; however, the largest urban area is the bi-state Kansas City metropolitan area split between Kansas and Missouri. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Plains Indians, Indigenous tribes. The first settlement of non-indigenous people in Kansas occurred in 1827 at Fort Leavenworth. The pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the Slavery in the United States, slavery debate. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picher, Oklahoma
Picher is a ghost town and former city in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, Ottawa County, northeastern Oklahoma, United States. It was a major national center of lead and zinc mining for more than 100 years in the heart of the Tri-State district, Tri-State Mining District. Decades of unrestricted subsurface excavation dangerously undermined most of Picher's town buildings and left giant piles of toxic metal-contaminated mine tailings (known as Chat (mining), chat) heaped throughout the area. The discovery of cave-in risks, groundwater contamination and health effects associated with the chat piles and subsurface shafts resulted in the site being included in 1983 in the Tar Creek Superfund site by the US United States Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency. The state collaborated on mitigation and remediation measures, but a 1994 study found that 34% of the children in Picher suffered from lead poisoning due to these environmental effects, which could result ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardin, Oklahoma
Cardin is a ghost town in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 150 at the 2000 census, but declined all the way to a population of 3 at the 2010 census in April 2010. By November of 2010, the population of the town was listed as zero. A former center of zinc and lead mining in northeastern Oklahoma, the town is located within the Tar Creek Superfund site designated in 1983 because of extensive environmental contamination. The vast majority of its residents accepted federal buyout offers of their properties, and the town's population officially had declined to zero in November 2010.Sheila Stogsdill"Cardin population drops to 0 as buyout completed" ''Tulsa World'', November 17, 2010. History Early history When it was founded as a mining town in 1913, this was first known as Tar Creek, after a stream in the area. In 1918, William Oscar Cardin (Quapaw), and his wife, Isa (Wade) Cardin, had his 40-acre allotment platted and recorded with the county clerk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
