The Kiowa, Chickasha and Fort Smith Railway (KC&FS) came about when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (Rock Island) decided to build an interchange linking their systems at a point halfway between the towns of Chickasha and Pauls Valley in what is now the State of Oklahoma.
[1] Toward that goal, the AT&SF incorporated The Kiowa, Chickasha and Fort Smith Railway Company in Kansas on July 13, 1899, which then built a line from Pauls Valley to what became the town of Lindsay, a distance of 24.2 miles, in the 1901-1903 timeframe.
[1] And, the town of Beef Creek was relocated a mile north to be alongside the tracks.
[2] In subsequent history, the Eastern Oklahoma Railway was sold to the AT&SF on June 20, 1907.
[2] Both the Rock Island and AT&SF portions of the line between Chickasha and Pauls Valley were abandoned in 1942.