Volume 9 , Issue 35

Choctaw & Rock Island Railroad

By 1902, the Choctaw Railroad was absorbed by the Rock Island. The Rock Island Railroad built a station at the foot of Union Street, and shortly thereafter the Santa Fe constructed a depot on east main. The Santa Fe Depot, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is said to be the most photographed building in the State of Oklahoma. Also, the "Katty" Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad built a station in Shawnee. It was reported that an average of 42 passenger trains and 65 freight trains arrived in the city daily. -- About Downtown Shawnee, OK
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