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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)
- BNSF Railway (BNSF)
- Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC)
- Cimarron Valley Railroad (CVR)
- Farmrail Corporation (FMRC)
- Grainbelt Corporation (GNBC)
- Kiamichi Railroad (KRR)
- Land Rush Rail Corporation (LRRC)
- Northwestern Oklahoma Railroad (NOKL)
- 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)
- 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
Defunct railroads
<!--Quapaw–Lincolnville Railroad?-->
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Name
!Mark
!System
!From
!To
!Successor
!Notes
|-
|Ada Terminal Railway
|
|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<!--or later in Oklahoma?-->
|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<!--leased the Southern Kansas Railway - or was there anything earlier?-->
|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
|-
|Blackwell Northern Gateway Railroad
|BNG
|
|2006
|2024
|Oklahoma and Kansas Railroad
|-
|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
|
|ATSF
|1916
|1920
|Clinton and Oklahoma Western Railroad
|-
|Cheyenne Short Line Railroad
|
|ATSF
|1912
|1916
|Cheyenne Railroad
|-
|Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway
|
|RI
|1887<!--authorized to enter Indian Territory-->
|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<!--or earlier through lease?-->
|1948
|Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
|-
|Chickasha Terminal Railway
|
|ATSF
|1910
|1914
|Oklahoma Central Railroad
|-
|Choctaw Coal and Railway Company
|
|RI
|1888<!--authorized to enter Indian Territory-->
|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<!--authorized to enter Indian Territory-->
|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
|
|RI
|1901
|1903
|Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway
|-
|Enid Central Railway
|ENIC
|
|1982
|1983
| Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad
|-
|Enid and Tonkawa Railway
|
|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<!--authorized to enter Indian Territory-->
|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<!--authorized to enter Indian Territory-->
|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<!--authorized to enter Indian Territory-->
|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<!--or later in Oklahoma?-->
|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<!--authorized to enter Indian Territory-->
|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
|-
|Kingston and Choctaw Valley Railroad
|
|
|1898
|1901
|
|-
|Kiowa, Chickasha and Fort Smith Railway
|
|ATSF
|1899<!--or later in Oklahoma?-->
|1904
|Eastern Oklahoma Railway
|-
|Lawton, Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|Miami Mineral Belt Railroad
|
|SLSF
|1917
|1950
|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway
|-
|Midland Valley Railroad
|MV
|MP
|1903<!--or later in Oklahoma?-->
|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<!--reached the border, gaining the right to build into Indian Territory-->
|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
|
|MP
|1903
|1904
|Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway
|-
|Muskogee City Bridge Company
|
|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<!--in Kansas too?-->
|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
|
|
|1916
|1923
|N/A
|-
|Oil Belt Terminal Railway
|
|ATSF
|1914
|1915
|Oil Fields and Santa Fe Railway
|-
|Oklahoma and Kansas Railroad
|
|Rock Island Rail
|2024
|2024
|Land Rush Rail Corporation
|-
|Okarche Central Railway
|OCRI
|
|1982
|1982
|Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad
|-
|Oklahoma Belt Railroad
|
|
|1917
|1944
|N/A<!--or was any of it included with the Oklahoma Railway lines jointly purchased by the ATSF and RI?-->
|-
|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
|
|
|1926
|1942
|N/A
|-
|Oklahoma-Southwestern Railway
|
|
|1920
|1930
|N/A
|-
|Oklahoma Union Railway
|
|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)
|
|
|1921
|1953
|N/A
|-
|Ozark and Cherokee Central Railway
|
|SLSF
|1903<!--or earlier in Oklahoma?-->
|1907
|St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad
|-
|Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway
|
|ATSF
|1920<!--leased the North Texas and Santa Fe Railway-->
|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
|
|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<!--leased the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway then??-->
|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<!--leased the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad-->
|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
|
|SLSF
|1899
|1903
|Ozark and Cherokee Central Railway
|-
|Southeast Kansas Railroad
|SEKR
|
|1994
|1999
|South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad
|-
|Southern Kansas Railway
|
|ATSF
|1884<!--authorized to enter Indian Territory-->
|1899
|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
|-
|Southwestern Railroad
|SW
|
|1990<!--?-->
|2007
|Abandoned its route west out of Shattuck, Oklahoma
|-
|Sulphur Springs Railway
|
|SLSF
|1902
|1907
|St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad
|-
|Tecumseh Railway
|
|RI
|1896
|1900
|Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad
|-
|Texas North Western Railway
|TXNW
|
|1982
|1987<!--abandoned Morse-Hardesty then?-->
|Railroad still exists but no longer extends into Oklahoma
|-
|Texas and Oklahoma Railroad (1991)
|TXOR
|
|1991
|1993
|Farmrail Corporation
|-
|Texas and Oklahoma Railroad (1902)
|
|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
|
|RI
|1900
|1901
|Choctaw Northern Railroad
|-
|Webber Falls, Shawnee and Western Railroad
|
|
|1911
|1914
|Webbers Falls Railroad
|
|-
|Webbers Falls Railroad
|WFRR
|
|1916
|1918
|N/A
|-
|West Tulsa Belt Railway
|
|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
|}
;Electric
- Ardmore Traction Company
- Bartlesville Interurban Railway
- Chickasha Street Railway
- Choctaw Railway & Lighting Co.
- Choctaw Electric Company
- Clinton Street Railway
- El Reno Interurban Company
- Enid City Railway
- Guthrie Railway
- Indian Territory Traction Co.
- Lawton Railway and Light
- Muskogee Electric Traction Company
- Northeast Oklahoma Railroad (NEO)
- Oklahoma Railway (OK)
- Oklahoma City Railway
- Oklahoma City and Suburban Railway
- Oklahoma Traction Company
- Oklahoma Union Railway
- People's Electric Railway
- Pittsburg County Railway
- Sand Springs Railway
- Sand Springs Interurban Railway
- Southwest Missouri Railroad Company
- Sapulpa & Interurban Railway
- Sapulpa Union Railway
- Shawnee–Tecumseh Traction Company
- Shawnee Traction Company
- Tulsa Street Railway
Notes
References
- Association of American Railroads (2003), . Retrieved May 11, 2005.