[:)]My Wife and I were on Vacation this Week.We visited Oklahoma City(oh so pretty.)and Wednesday,we went on a Driving Tour on Route 66 as far as Elk City.Visited both Route 66 Museums in Clinton and Elk City.*(*FYI:The one in Clinton is better.),plus saw Farmrail Operations in Clinton;Weatherford and Elk City.[8D]Anyway,on our return trip to OKC,we saw some street trackage in Downtown El Reno.Also got a photo of a former Rock Island Caboose in Downtown ElReno.Getting back to the matter in hand,I saw on a Historical Marker that ElReno had Interurban service around the begining of the 20th Century.However,I know that it’s long gone and stone dead.However,the trackage still exists in Downtown ElReno and looks in very good shape. Can any of you good folks on line fill me in about it??[?]Sure would appreciate it.[:D][:D]
That was the Oklahoma Railway-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_Railway
http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/okprojects/xref/rr/orc.htm
As Dale noted.
The Oklahoma Railway had a pretty extensive network pre-WWII. In fact the interurbans in Oklahome were in quite a network, Intrastate and Interstate. At one time one could ride the interurbans from Nowata, Ok, via Coffeeville,Independence and Cherryvale to Parsons, Ks. From Muskogee, Ok to Miami,Ok to Columbus, Ks, with connections to Pittsburg, Ks and Joplin, Mo.[ on the Northeast Oklahoma Railroad .
A book titled, " When Oklahoma took the Trolley" published in 1980 by Interurbans, located then in Glendale, Ca.91205, written by Allison Chandler and Stephen D. Maguire pretty thoroughly covers the topic, with lots of photos, covers the whole list of trolley companies in pre WWII Oklahoma.
Sam