[4] Specifically, the DQE continues west from a railway connection at Perkins, Arkansas through Dierks, Lockesburg and De Queen to the Oklahoma border, while the TOE runs from the border through Broken Bow and Wright City to Valliant, Oklahoma.
[1][3][5] The DQE was chartered on September 22, 1900, in order to construct a line from De Queen, Arkansas east to a connection with the Kansas City Southern Railway at Perkins, Arkansas, roughly 50 miles.
[1] On October 21, 1910, a separate railroad called the Texas, Oklahoma and Eastern (TOE) was chartered to build a line from an interchange with the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Frisco) at Valliant, Oklahoma east to De Queen.
[1][7] The DQE and the TOE essentially operate as a single railroad with 91 miles of track.
[1] The lines interchange with the BNSF Railway through the Kiamichi Railroad at Valliant, with the Kansas City Southern at De Queen, and with the Union Pacific at Perkins.