SKOL serves the Tulsa area with two daily locals, operating from the railroad’s yard in Owasso.
North of Tulsa, an 8-mile spur branches off at Owasso to serve the Tulsa Port of Catoosa. The railroad is owned by shortline conglomerate Watco Companies and shares its headquarters in Cherryvale, Kan., with sister railroads South East Kansas and Stillwater Central.įrom its hub in Cherryvale, five SKOL lines spread across southeast Kansas, including a line running south through Independence, and Bartlesville, Okla. South Kansas & Oklahoma is a short line railroad providing freight service on some 290 miles of trackage spun off by Santa Fe in 1990. Major commodities: grain, flour, cement, aggregates The mill produces an assortment of steel bars and steel billets. Gerdau Ameristeel has its own intraplant rail operation that uses two switch engines. Around midday, the train arrives in Tulsa, where cars are interchanged with BNSF, UP, and South Kansas & Oklahoma. A switching crew goes on duty each morning in Sand Springs, working the line’s customers and the railroad’s warehouse and 8-acre transloading facility. The railroad’s main customer is owner Gerdau Ameristeel, which in 2006 bought Sheffield Steel, operators of a steel mill in Sand Springs. Provides local service on a 5-mile line between Sand Springs and Tulsa, with 32 miles of track. Major commodities: scrap iron, steel, silica sand, pulpboard, chemicals, petroleum products, scrap paper, plastic, lumber A transfer run operates 6 days a week, leaving Muskogee in the morning with cars for BNSF, Sand Springs Railway, Tulsa-Sapulpa Union, and South Kansas & Oklahoma. Tulsa sits at the end of Union Pacific’s Tulsa Subdivision, which runs 38 miles east to Muskogee, Okla. Sun Oil refinery, plant switching – 160.890 (AAR 52) Eastbound trains approaching Tulsa on the Avard Sub contact the Tulsa yardmaster for yarding instructions.Ĭherokee Yard yardmaster – 161.100 (AAR 66) The majority of BNSF traffic through Tulsa is East-West, concentrated on the Cherokee and Avard Subs. The Creek Subdivision runs south from Cherokee Yard, passing through Sapulpa and continues on to Madill, Okla., 175.7 miles, part of a route for trains to and from Dallas/Ft. Just north of Cherokee Yard is Cherokee Junction, where the Avard Subdivision swings west, providing a 176.3-mile connection to BNSF’s Chicago-Los Angeles Transcon at Avard, Okla. Trains from Kansas City join the Cherokee Sub at Afton, Okla. Louis and Memphis join at Springfield, Mo., the east end of the Cherokee Subdivision, which runs west 187.2 miles to Cherokee Yard. BNSF is the major player in Tulsa, operating 30-40 trains a day over three ex-Frisco routes that converge on Cherokee Yard, the city’s largest rail yard.
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