SAND SPRINGS RAILWAY, Nos. 100 and 102, through Sand Springs, Oklahoma, which is just 10 miles west of Tulsa. These were taken June 4, 2004 from a Citgo gas station on a city street just off US Highway 412. A Best Western Hotel was located a few blocks west. The tracks run east-west paralleling US 412 for awhile in this part of  Sand Springs. According to Tom on the Railspot Yahoo Group, the Sand Springs Railway was originally an interurban built in 1911 to serve an orphans  home in Sand Springs, 10 miles west of Tulsa. Charles Page, an oil man who discovered the Tenaha Field south of Tulsa, owned the line. The profits of the line supported the home. It ran the last passendger interurban train in the state. (Ken Ziegenbein photos, June 4, 2004)







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