Friday Feb 22 2008
Oklahoma Subdivision
Twenty-seven years ago in Missouri Pacific days the Oklahoma Subdivision of the Red River Division extended roughly 165 miles from Durant to Muskogee, Oklahoma over the old Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf.
At the time I took this photo on 05/07/81 of a northbound freight with four SD40-2’s passing the southbound approach signal to KO&G Junction in Durant, the MP’s merger into the UP is only a year away. Six years later in 1988 the merger with the M-K-T will foreshadow the complete abandonment of this line in favor of the M-K-T’s parallel and more favorable route.
