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Santa Fe Depot (Amtrak: OKC), also known as the Santa Fe Transit Hub, is an Amtrak station located in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is the northern terminus of the Heartland Flyer, a daily train to Fort Worth, Texas. The Art Deco structure was built in 1934 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, colloquially known as the Santa Fe ...
The railroad of the Oklahoma City Junction Railway Company, herein called the carrier, is a single-track, standard-gauge, steam railroad, located in Oklahoma City, Okla. The company owns 1.724 miles of main track together with 3.779 miles of yard tracks and sidings. Its road thus embraces 5.503 miles of all tracks owned and used.
Trains 111/112 (Texas Express and Chicago Express) began operating between Oklahoma City and Dallas on similar schedules as the replaced trains, with Chicago–Dallas through cars exchanged with the Chicagoan and Kansas Cityan at Oklahoma City. [14] [15] [16] The Chicagoan and Kansas Cityan received new full-length "Big Dome" lounges in 1954.
The Choctaw Rocket followed a railway built by the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad between 1900 and 1902, informally known as the Choctaw Route. The CO&G and its railways were purchased by the Rock Island railroad in 1902. A predecessor train, along the same route, and having the numbers #51/52, had the name, Chocktaw Limited in the 1930s. [2]
The Heartland Flyer is a daily passenger train that follows a 206-mile (332 km) route between Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Fort Worth, Texas. It is operated by Amtrak and jointly funded by the states of Oklahoma and Texas. [3] The train's daily round-trip begins in Oklahoma City in the morning and reaches Fort Worth in the early afternoon.
The Central Oklahoma Transportation and Parking Authority was established on February 1, 1966, by the Oklahoma City Council to continue transit service as private operator Oklahoma Transportation Company, which provided bus service to the community, as City Bus Company, had announced it would discontinue transit service due to low ridership.
Oklahoma City Union Depot is a building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that served as a "union station" from 1931 until 1967. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [ 2 ] It now houses the offices of the Scissortail Park Foundation.
Interstate 235 –Downtown Oklahoma City; I-35/I-40 junction to the I-44/Broadway Extension junction in North Oklahoma City; Interstate 240 – SW Oklahoma City; I-344 to I-40 in Eastern Oklahoma County