Bonds were issued by the city government to repurchase the rights of way of the Frisco and Rock Island and to pay for new civic buildings on the vacated land.

The terminal building, with 55,000 sq ft (5,100 m2) on its main floor, is a sprawling, generous California Spanish Mission Revival style.

The structure included many elegant touches (small courtyards and alcoves with fountains and gardens surrounding the station building).

[5] These lines last saw passenger service in the 1960s with many sections saved from abandonment by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation and operated by short-line railroads.

This realignment will add an additional 10 lanes of road through downtown Oklahoma City while the current corridor becomes an at-grade boulevard.

On June 5, 2008, the Surface Transportation Board stated that BNSF Railway falsified an application and ruled against the realignment.