Sulphur Springs Railway Company

The United States Government in behalf of the Chickasaw Indians, made a reservation of the Springs, together with forty acres of land at Sulphur Springs, about nine miles west of the station of Scullin on the Sapulpa-Denison line of the Frisco Railroad.  

In April of 1902 , the Sulphur Springs Railway Company was incorporated in Oklahoma Territory to build the railroad from Scullin to Sulphur Springs.  The work of Construction was begun by Johnston Brothers in the fall of 1902.  The road was completed for operation in the late spring of 1903.  The railway is nine miles in length.

Originally built to bring tourist to the Platt National Park and Sulphur, the railway later hauled the generating equipment to build the electric generating station for O. G. & E. north of Sulphur.  In later years, it was used to haul livestock feed and fuel to the Sulphur area.  

The line was removed in the 1970's and only fragments of the rails and the ballast bed can be seen today.  The Sulphur depot was located where the new Sulphur City Complex now stands on the corner of Broadway and Woodruff Avenue on the banks of Rock Creek.  Woodruff Avenue is actually the roadbed of the old railway.

Dennis Muncrief - June, 2001