Nostalgia & History > Depot Friday: Sulphur, OK

Here's a view that Frank captured from Sulphur, OK. One of many towns that once once served by the railroad but is not anymore. Built by the Sulphur Springs Railroad and later absorbed into the Frisco, Sulphur, OK was once at the end of a branch that connected to the Frisco's Tulsa, OK to Irving, TX mainline in Scullin, OK. To my knowledge, the depot is gone, as well as $0.24 gas prices.

Taken by Frank Tribbey on March 3, 1962.
PQM

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Near as I can tell, the photo was taken right about here, looking west on Oklahoma Highway 7, though virtually no landmarks remain from Tribbey's shot. 

https://goo.gl/maps/9sB5Wthszt1Kw4hp7

Santa Fe served Sulphur, OK too, on a branch east from Davis.  Their line was abandoned in 1939:

http://sites.rootsweb.com/~okmurray/images/SantaFe_Depot_Sul.jpg

Tha building behind the white pickup looks like the old station.

Except for an ATSF station on the west side of town that appears to have been moved from, I think, Daugherty on the ATSF OK City-Ft. Worth main, there is no sign of any railroads in Sulphur anymore.  Aerial photography shows the right of way coming from Scullin but that's it.

Fantastic photograph with so much historic detail.

With some help from Google, relative price of 1962's .24 cents today is $2.03.  Closest gas I could find on Gasbuddy is $1.64.
 

MILW16 Wrote:

> Aerial photography shows the right of
> way coming from Scullin but that's it.

Bits of the Santa Fe grade coming east from Davis can still be discerned in aerials as well, but I have yet to find a map showing just where their tracks ran in Sulphur and how they interchanged with the Frisco.