[2] Construction plans changed, with the intent to run the line from Hope, Arkansas to Ardmore, Oklahoma.
[2] The longer-range vision was for the line to act as a link in the Frisco organization to facilitate shipments out of Colorado, southern and western Oklahoma, and northern Texas, going all the way to New Orleans.
[3] On October 2, 1902 the company’s name was changed by charter amendment to the St. Louis, San Francisco, and New Orleans Railroad Co.[1] And, while building its mainline in the 1902-1903 timeframe, the New Orleans also added a 9.2 mile spur from Kiersey Junction, near Kiersey, Oklahoma just west of Durant, running south to Texas Junction, a point on a separate Frisco line heading from Madill south into Denison, Texas.
[1] In 1904, operation was discontinued on trackage which started from a point called Frisco Junction, being a junction with the Rock Island rail line east of Ardmore, and continuing into Ardmore paralleling the Rock Island tracks.
[1] The rest of the line, from Hope to Lakeside, Oklahoma and then via trackage rights to a connection with the BNSF at Madill, is now operated by the Kiamichi Railroad.