Central Kansas Railway
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The Central Kansas Railway (CKR) (reporting mark CKRY) was a short-line railroad operating Template:Convert of trackage in the U.S. state of Kansas and west to Scott City, Kansas. All trackage was former Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway branchlines in Kansas and northern Oklahoma. The Kansas Southwestern Railway, a sister company which operated former Missouri Pacific Railroad branchlines in Kansas, was merged into the CKR in 2000. Owned by Omnitrax, CKR's main business was from the Kansas wheat harvests, as well as other traffic.
Declining harvest quantities and increased shipments by truck hurt the company financially for a few years; Mike Babcock of Kansas State University, whose research is rail transportation in Kansas, noted that more grain was being shipped by truck than by rail in 1998.[1] The railroad sought loans, grants, tax relief and any governmental assistance they could get to help allay their costs of operation and maintenance.[2] In 2000, the railroad planned to abandon Template:Convert of track.[3]
Watco purchased all of the CKR's lines on May 31, 2001, and formed the Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad.[4][5]
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