[1] The railroad did build northwest from Clinton, but stopped at Strong City, Oklahoma in Roger Mills County in August of 1912.
[5] The townspeople of Cheyenne, Oklahoma, the Roger Mills County seat, were concerned about being bypassed by the railroad, and promptly chartered their own railway, the Cheyenne Short Line Railroad, on December 2, 1912, to run up the Washita River valley to connect with the larger railway at Strong City.
[1][6][7] That short line, after completion and a later reorganization as The Cheyenne Railroad Company, was leased to the Clinton and Oklahoma Western in 1917.
The railway was eventually extended west to the Oklahoma/Texas state line, and a sister company, the Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas, was chartered on July 30, 1927 to build the line from the border through Hemphill County, Texas, to the town of Pampa in Gray County, Texas.
[2] Before completion, however, both the Clinton and Oklahoma Western Railroad Company and its Texas affiliate were acquired by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in June of 1928.