The Paris and Great Northern Railroad (“P&GN”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (“SLSF”),[1] was incorporated July 28, 1881 for the purpose of building a railroad from Paris, Texas to a connection with the SLSF at the Red River.

[2] Work commenced in February 1886, and the line—which included a bridge over the Red River—was placed in operation in January 1888.

[2] The P&GN was a participant, along with an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway subsidiary, in the Union Station which opened in 1912 in Paris, Texas.

[1][3] That station, under the name of the Santa Fe-Frisco Depot, is now on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lamar County, Texas.

[4] On July 22, 1987, the Kiamichi Railroad acquired the trackage as part of its Hugo, Oklahoma to Paris, Texas line.