[2] Its objective did not change, and the railway built another 100 miles to Fort Scott, Kansas, arriving by December 1869.
However, it made the decision to accept financial incentives from the town of Baxter Springs, Kansas to build to that location, arriving by May 1870.
[2] However, the detour cost the railroad the race to the border, and hence the dream of transiting Indian Territory to the Gulf.
[2] Still, the railroad system did later make some minor inroads into Indian Territory, with the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad building to Miami, Oklahoma in 1896, and the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway extending this line to Afton, Oklahoma in 1901.
[2] It was combined with several minor branch lines and changed names to become the Kansas City, Fort Scott, and Gulf Railroad.
[9] Ultimately, taking into account subsidiaries, the branch to Oklahoma, and other trackage, this railroad system came to own 881.19 miles (1,418.14 kilometres) of road.