Reporting mark KO Headquarters Kansas, United States | Dates of operation 2001–Present Parent organization Watco Companies | |
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Locale Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado Track gauge 4 ft 8 ⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge Length 820 miles (1,320 kilometres) | ||
The Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (reporting mark KO) is a shortline railroad operating in the midwest United States.
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Overview
The tracks Kansas and Oklahoma operate on include parts of the Kansas City to Pueblo main line formerly operated by the Missouri Pacific and later Union Pacific railways.
The KO is a subsidiary of the Watco Companies, which took over the operations of the Central Kansas Railway (CKRY) on June 29, 2001. The KO started operating at 12:01 A.M. on June 30, 2001. The CKRY property was purchased from OmniTrax and the KO also assumed operations of CKRY's sister Railroad Kansas Southwestern Railway on the same date.
The KO consists of trackage radiating north and west from their headquarters at Wichita, Kansas. Most of this trackage was originally operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, although a few segments were originally operated by the Missouri Pacific.
820 miles of track are owned by KO, and another 84 miles is accounted for in trackage rights.
Subdivisions
As of March 2005, the K&O consisted of the following subdivisions: