Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad

Infobox SG rail
railroad_name=Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad
marks=KO
system_

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map_size = 300
locale=Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado
start_year=2001| end_year=present
hq_city=Wichita, Kansas
The Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad reporting mark|KO is a class III railroad operating in the western United States.

The KO is a subsidiary of the Watco Companies, which took over the operations of the Central Kansas Railway (CKRY) on June 29, 2001. The KO started operating at 12:01 A.M. on June 30, 2001. The CKRY property was purchased from OmniTrax and the KO also assumed operations of CKRY's sister Railroad Kansas Southwestern Railroad on the same date.

The KO consists of trackage radiating north and west from their headquarters at Wichita, Kansas. Most of this trackage was originally operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, although a few segments were originally operated by the Missouri Pacific.

ubdivisions

As of March 2005, the K&O consisted of the following subdivisions:
*Hutchinson Subdivision (Wichita, KS to Hutchinson, KS)
*Conway Springs Subdivision (Wichita, KS to Kingman, KS via Conway Springs, KS)
*Kingman Subdivision (Garden Plain, KS to Pratt, KS)
*Isabel Subdivision (Coats, KS to Graham, KS)
*Great Bend Subdivision (Hutchinson, KS to near Pawnee Rock, KS)
*Geneseo Subdivision (Sterling, KS to Geneseo, KS)
*Scott City Subdivision (Great Bend, KS to Scott City, KS)
*Hoisington Subdivision (Geneseo, KS to McCraken, KS and Healy, KS to Towner, CO)
*Salina Subdivision (Salina, KS to Osborne, KS)
*McPherson Subdivision (McPherson, KS to Conway, KS)
*Newton Subdivision (Newton, KS to McPherson, KS)