Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad

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Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad
Reporting marks	KO
Locale	Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado
Dates of operation	2001 – present
Track gauge	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm) (standard gauge)
Headquarters	Wichita, Kansas

The Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (AAR reporting mark KO), one of the Watco Companies, took over operations of the Central Kansas Railway on June 29, 2001 (CKRY). The K & O started opperations of the railroad line at 12:01 A.M. on June 30th 2001. The property was purchased from OmniTrax Corporation that has been operated as their Central Kansas Railway. Kansas & Oklahome also assumed operations of CKRY's sister Railroad Kansas Southwestern Railroad 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.

As of March 2005, the K&O consisted of the following subdivisions:

Hutchinson Subdivision (Wichita, KS to Hutchinson, KS)

Conway Springs Subdivision (Wichita, KS to Kingman, KS via Conway Springs, KS)

Kingman Subdivision (Garden Plain, KS to Pratt, KS)

Isabel Subdivision (Coats, KS to Graham, KS)

Great Bend Subdivision (Hutchinson, KS to near Pawnee Rock, KS)

Geneseo Subdivision (Sterling, KS to Geneseo, KS)

Scott City Subdivision (Great Bend, KS to Scott City, KS)

Hoisington Subdivision (Geneseo, KS to McCraken, KS and Healy, KS to Towner, CO)

Salina Subdivision (Salina, KS to Osborne, KS)

McPherson Subdivision (McPherson, KS to Conway, KS)

Newton Subdivision (Newton, KS to McPherson, KS)