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The Kiowa, Chickasha and Fort Smith Railway (KC&FS) came about when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad decided to build an interchange linking their systems at a point halfway between the towns of Chickasha and Pauls Valley in what is now the State of Oklahoma. Toward that goal, the AT&SF incorporated The Kiowa, Chickasha and Fort Smith Railway Company in Kansas on July 13, 1899, which then built a line from Pauls Valley to what became the town of Lindsay, a distance of 24.2 miles, in the 1901-1903 timeframe. The line’s first operation was in December of 1903.
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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Railroads of Oklahoma, June 6, 1870 to April 1, 1978. State of Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Survey Division. April 1, 1978. pp. 29–39.
- ↑ "Esau Junction, OK 74058". Google Maps. Archived from the original on June 8, 2022. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
- ↑ "Pawnee". Linda D. Wilson, Oklahoma Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 28, 2020. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
- ↑ "Ralston". Linda D. Wilson, Oklahoma Historical Society. Archived from the original on September 17, 2021. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
- 1 2 "Creditability of service to The Eastern Oklahoma Railway Company" (PDF). General Counsel, Railroad Retirement Board, February 21, 1939 (accessed on GovInfo.gov). Archived (PDF) from the original on June 8, 2022. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
- ↑ "Chap. 506—An Act Permitting the Kiowa, Chickasha and Fort Smith Railway to sell and convey its railroad". 1905. Archived from the original on June 8, 2022. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
- ↑ "Abandoned Rails of the Eastern Oklahoma Railroad". AbandonedRails.com. Archived from the original on June 8, 2022. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
- ↑ "Chickasha to Lindsay, OK". AbandonedRails.com. Archived from the original on June 8, 2022. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
- ↑ "K & E Railway Company—Abandonment Exemption—in Alfalfa, Garfield and Grant Counties, OK, and Barber County, KS" (PDF). Surface Transportation Board, Federal Register, Vol. 61, No. 252, December 31, 1996 (accessed on GovInfo.gov). Archived (PDF) from the original on March 27, 2021. Retrieved June 7, 2022.