| This is a view looking west on the ex Rock Island Choctaw route at Howe. The KCS is behind me. The track going off to the left is the connection to the KCS from the AOK, which now operates this line as far as Mc Alester. Two sidings remain where there appears to have been a yard. Overhead is US 59. I cant look at this line without thinking about how a freight behind a set of GP 35s or F units would have looked, or perhaps a passenger train with an FP 7. This was also the interchange point for one of the more obscure mail routes, with KCS and Rock Island handing off mail here. |