OKLAHOMA DIVISION FIRST DISTRICT
This line segment was the passenger main through Oklahoma that served Oklahoma City. Other than the Oil Flyer and the Tulsan all of the before mentioned Oklahoma Eastern Lines crack passenger trains operated on this district. The Texas Chief could be called Oklahoma's Super Chief. This streamliner ran from Chicago to Galveston with minimal stops and survived until 1979 as an Amtrak train: The Lone Star. For a time however the Santa Fe had allowed Amtrak to use the Texas Chief name. The Santa Fe was not satisfied with Amtrak's operation of the ex-Santa Fe Texas Chief and in the mid 70's the Santa Fe forced Amtrak to remove the Santa Fe's "Chief" name. Today it is a freight mainline for the BNSF from central Kansas to Houston and it is second only in traffic to the BNSF mainline through Woodward in the North West portion of the state. The topography of this route can best be described as transitional. West of this district the territory is basically flat plains and wheat farmland. East of this branch is the beginning of a sparse "forest" of scrubby blackjack oak and cedar which gets more dense as you travel east in Oklahoma. It is pretty land. The rolling Osage Hills lie east of Newkirk. Just North of Guthrie the line crosses Skelton Creek and the Cimarron River in a plush valley of meadows, grass, and trees. South of Noble, Oklahoma the line crosses and then follows the South Canadian river to Purcell inside a narrow portion of the South Canadian River valley. The further south you go the fewer blackjack oaks and cedars you will see.
MP 263.4 Arkansas City*
MP 264.2 MV-SLSF-MP Crossings
MP 267.8 State Line
MP 268.6 Chilocco
MP 275.8 Newkirk
MP 281.0 Kildare
MP 286.3 Cross
MP 288.9 Ponca City
MP 290.7 C.R.I.&P. Crossing
MP 292.9 White Eagle
MP 300.3 Marland
MP 306.8 Red Rock
MP 312.7 Otoe
MP 316.0 Black Bear
MP 316.3 S.L.-S.F. Crossing
MP 318.6 McMahon
MP 321.6 Perry
MP 328.4 Asp
MP 332.7 Orlando
MP 338.8 Mulhall
MP 342.5 Barnes
MP 347.2 Lawrie
MP 350.4 E.O. Jct
MP 352.6 Guthrie
MP 360.1 Seward
MP 365.1 Waterloo
MP 370.1 Edmond
MP 376.8 Britton (color photo in the Kirkpatrick Center Oklahoma City)
MP 381.1 Nowers
MP 384.0 OklahomaCity
MP 385.7 Burnett
MP 388.8 Flynn
MP 393.2 Moore
MP 401.8 Norman
MP 408.1 Noble (photo in the Rose Rock museum Noble, OK U.S. route 77)
MP 417.3 Purcell (see Wheat Lines and Super Freights p.232
153.9 miles