Go here: Rail America website Kiamichi was originally owned by Jack Hadley, and was sold later to Statesrail, which also owned the Kyle, Eastern Alabama, San Diego & Imperial Valley, San Juaquin Valley, and a couple of others (including a narrow-gauge excursion line in Hawaii). Statesrail was then purchased by RailAmerica (who also bought Railtex).
Jack Hadley. That name sounds vaguely familiar. Was he the fellow who had the RR's in Iowa? (Cedar Valley? CC&P?) Who was the original owner of Kiamichi trackage? Was that the Frisco? Boxcab E50
That fellow is Jack Haley. Jack Hadley was the original owner of Kiamichi, which purchased 227.5 miles of BN trackage (ex-Frisco) mostly in Oklahoma. It consists of the Ardmore & Arkinda Sub from Lakeside, OK to Hope, AR, the Antlers Branch from Antlers, OK to Hugo, OK, and the Arthur Sub from Hugo south to Paris, TX. Besides that track, 4 miles of KCS track from Hope south to Anthony, AR is operated by Kiamichi via trackage rights to servce customers. South of Anthony to Springhill, LA, the line is gone. KCS had a GP7 at Hope run by a crew deadheaded out of Shreveport, but later let KRR handle the business. KRR also owns 4 miles of line from Paris to a point 4 miles south; this is part of the ex-Santa Fe Paris Branch, and was part of the 60-mile Chaparral RR (a Kiamichi affiliate) from Paris to Farmersville. Due to light overhead traffic, and a lack of originating traffic off Santa Fe & KCS as well as the Garland industrial district (which it lost to DGNO), this line was abandoned. From Lakeside to Madill (interchange with BNSF, ex-BN, nee Frisco), Kiamichi has trackage rights over what was Frisco's Sherman Sub.
