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78-657: The OCR trackage consisted of 127 miles (204 km) from Lehigh to Chickasha that included the stations of Lehigh, Ada , Vanoss , Stratford , Byars , Rosedale , Purcell, Washington , Cole , Blanchard , Middelberg , Tabler , and Chickasha. In addition, a 3 miles (4.8 km) branch extended from a point west of Lehigh into additional coal mines in Coal County . The primary sources of revenue included transport of passengers and express, coal, cotton and cotton by-products, livestock , and building materials. After 1908 trains were operated as mixed trains. Financing for

156-502: A Tree City USA member. In the late 1880s, the Daggs family (by way of Texas ) became the first white family to settle what is now known as Ada, which was formerly known as Daggs Prairie. In April 1889, Jeff Reed (a Texan and relative of the Daggs family) was appointed to carry the mail from Stonewall to Center (which was later combined with Pickett), two small communities in then Indian Territory. With his family and his stock, he sought

234-427: A meet with an oncoming train, or to allow a faster one to overtake, and then reverse out to continue in the original direction. Where one or more of the lines forming the junction are multi-track, the presence of a triangular junction does introduce a number of potential conflicting moves. For this reason, where traffic is heavy the triangle may incorporate flying junctions on some of the legs. From time to time it

312-424: A balloon loop more practical in a small amount of space, and with street-running vehicles such a loop may be able to use side streets or street squares. However, although turning loops are the most common way of turning such vehicles, wye tracks are also sometimes used. A triangle may have a situational disadvantage in train operations when space constraints of the local geography cause one leg of triangle to bypass

390-420: A day from Birrong to Sefton does terminate and reverse at Regents Park station (in order to clean the rust off the crossover rails). There is a goods branch from Chullora and, in the future, the possibility of a separate single track freight line. The three passenger stations at the vertices of the triangle have island platforms making it convenient to change trains. The sharp curves of the triangle, and especially

468-474: A few miles west of Blanchard while waiting for additional rails to arrive. The community that developed from this camp was named Middelberg, in an apparent attempt to curry favor with the hard-lined Dutch overseer. In addition to the dummy construction company that was "building" the line, the OCR also involved itself in forced real estate developments. Rather than constructing its road through existing townships,

546-529: A loop would not be possible, and can turn trains up to the length of the stub tracks at the end of the wye. Railroad systems in North America and Australia have tended to have more wyes than railroads elsewhere. North American locomotives and cars (such as observation cars ) are more likely to be directional than those found on other continents. In Canada and the United States, the railroad often

624-425: A main station. In tight city environments, this can happen easily, as it did, for example, at Cootamundra West , Australia and Tecuci , Romania, where extra passenger stations had to be built to serve trains taking the shortcut. In contrast, the engineering of a terminus station such as Woodville Railway Station, New Zealand avoided this problem by building a balloon loop (reversing loop) so that trains can serve

702-472: A newspaper from McGee, I.T., which was relocated by this process three miles (5 km) to south and is now called Stratford . This also may have occurred at Blanchard and Stonewall. The OCR went into receivership in June 1908 and Asa E. Ramsey was appointed as receiver. Trains were reduced to mixed service (passenger and freight on the same train), and cost-cutting measures were introduced. Unfortunately,

780-717: A pentagram layout, requiring four movements and five turnouts to reverse. It allows a smaller layout, without excessively tight curve radii, compared to a triangle. Some of these still survive, such as at the original terminus  [ it ] of Carbonia in Sardinia and at Mals or Malles Venosta in Val Venosta in the South Tyrol . In addition to small terminal stations such as Carbonia and Malles Venosta, inversion stars were also installed at some principal stations such as Verona Porta Nuova and Brenner at

858-524: A place for a home on a prairie midway between the two points, where he constructed a log house and started Reed's Store. Other settlers soon built homes nearby. In 1891, a post office was established and named after Reed's oldest daughter, Ada. Ada incorporated as a city in 1901 and grew rapidly with the arrival of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway line. Within a decade the Santa Fe Railroad and

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936-643: A record of blood crimes, probably has no equal in the annals of criminal history in the entire southwest". The first manufacturing company in Ada, the Portland Cement Company, installed the first cement clinker in Oklahoma in 1910. American Glass Casket Company began manufacturing glass caskets in 1916, but the business failed. Hazel Atlas Glass bought the plant in 1928 and produced glass products until 1991. The following sites in Ada are listed on

1014-751: A reorganized company called the Oklahoma Central Railroad Company, created as of July 31, 1914. That entity was controlled by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe), through ownership of a majority of its capital stock, from August 1, 1914. The tracks of the new Oklahoma Central were also leased to and operated by the Santa Fe, with a purchase option. The line was merged into the Santa Fe in 1942. Tracks from Lehigh to Ada and Purcell to Byars were removed in 1934, and Purcell-Chickasha in 1941. The segment from Byars to Ada

1092-421: A replacement was no longer justified. Locomotives requiring to be turned had to travel to Barkston Junction to traverse the triangular layout there (this was where Mallard with a dynamometer car attached was turned before starting out south on its record-breaking run on 3 July 1938). The journey to Barkston Junction and back was a time-consuming business involving a round trip of some 8 miles (13 km) along

1170-467: A representative, Gerrit Middelberg , to Purcell to monitor the construction of the road and operations of the company. Middelberg's colorful letters belie a distaste for the living conditions and cuisine of the frontier, and a deep suspicion of Mr. Carter. In one letter he declares, "it is now apparent that the forces behind the railway and the construction company are one and the same." Van Oss refused to send additional funds, and construction crews camped

1248-484: A reward has been offered for arrest of the guilty parties...most citizens now believe negroes should be allowed to live there." After the incident, the town remained open to African Americans to provide labor for a local cotton compress. In 1909, the women of Ada organized an effort to build a normal school in their city. It resulted in the founding of East Central College (now East Central University ). On April 19, 1909, an organized mob hanged four men, among whom

1326-401: A short triangle or wye stubs to turn the car at the end of the line. The use of triangular junctions allows flexibility in routing trains from any line to either of the two other paths, without the need to reverse the train. For this reason they are common across most rail networks. A slower train may be signaled to temporarily enter a wye (as a refuge siding in lieu of a passing loop ) for

1404-463: A substantial portion of the 37.1% single-person households. Average household size was 2.20 persons; average family size was 2.91. The age breakdown in 2006 was 22.3% under the age of 18, 17.5% from 18 to 24, 24.4% from 25 to 44, 18.9% from 45 to 64, and 17.0% aged 65 or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females aged 18 or over, there were 84.5 males, while for all ages, there were 100 females for every 88.4 males. Median household income

1482-513: A turntable, using a dedicated turning triangle instead. The Luas tram system has a triangular junction on the Red Line between the stations of Busáras , Connolly and George's Dock . The line that goes between George's Dock and Connolly is never used, as no trams operate between The Point and Connolly. Railways in Italy used a number of "inversion stars" for turning locomotives. This uses

1560-616: Is Downpatrick Loop on the Downpatrick and County Down Railway . Originally constructed to allow direct Belfast–Newcastle trains to bypass Downpatrick station , the triangle forms the basis of a heritage railway, the only heritage railway of this type in the British Isles. There is one station at each end of the triangle and another in the southernmost corner. Historical triangular junctions in Ireland include Moyasta Junction on

1638-585: Is grid reference ST316887 . Shrewsbury also has a triangular route formation that was used to turn steam locomotives, and is still available. A triangle, grid reference SH294789 , was provided in 1989 adjacent to the transfer sidings for Wylfa Nuclear Power Station , near to Valley on Anglesey in Wales. This enables the North Wales Coast Line to be used by steam hauled excursions. The turntable at Holyhead has long been removed and

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1716-529: Is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County , Oklahoma , United States. The population was 16,481 at the 2020 United States Census . The city was named for Ada Reed, the daughter of an early settler, and was incorporated in 1901. Ada is home to East Central University , and is the capital of the Chickasaw Nation . Ada is an Oklahoma Main Street City , an Oklahoma Certified City, and

1794-513: Is a public four-year institution that has been in operation since 1909. ECU serves roughly 4,500 students is known internationally for its cartography program, as only a few such programs exist. ECU is also home to an Environmental Health Science Program, one of only 30 programs nationally accredited by the National Environmental Health Science and Protection Accreditation Council (EHAC). The majority of Ada

1872-463: Is a very common crossword puzzle answer. Associated clues often include "Oklahoma city", "Oklahoma palindrome", and "Sooner State city." In 1987, journalist Robert Mayer published The Dreams of Ada exploring major flaws, irregularities, forced confessions, and possible miscarriages of justice in Ada in the convictions of Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot for the rape and murder of Denice Haraway, who died in 1984. In 2006, John Grisham brought Ada into

1950-511: Is funneled through Ada. The Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Center, a large water research lab staffed by the Environmental Protection Agency , opened in 1966. LegalShield , a multi-level marketing provider of pre-paid legal services, is headquartered in the city. Oil and natural gas remain a part of the regional economy. The largest employers in the region are: East Central University , located in Ada,

2028-485: Is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km ) (0.44%) is water. As of the 2020 United States Census , there were 16,481 people, 6,611 households, and 3,552 families residing in the city. As of the 2010 census , Ada's 16,810 residents consisted of 6,697 households and 3,803 families. The population density was 999.3 inhabitants per square mile (385.8/km ). The 7,862 housing units were dispersed at an average density of 475.9 per square mile (183.7/km ). Ada's 2006 racial makeup

2106-423: Is necessary to turn both individual pieces of railroad equipment or whole trains. This may be because the piece of equipment is not directionally symmetrical, for example, most steam locomotives and some diesel locomotives , or where the consist has a dedicated tail end car such as an observation car . Even where equipment is symmetrical, periodic turning may still be necessary in order to equalize wear (e.g., on

2184-478: Is no bridge platform, that has rotted away after years. In some fields by where the right of way was, you can find coal, and spikes. From the south end of Byars Cemetery a large wooden trestle over a creek is still intact. The line passed directly behind the cemetery and curves to the north about 1 block west of it. North of town, the great earthworks that carried the OCR main line over the Santa Fe are still visible, including some cut off trestle pilings. Buried in

2262-468: Is only used for out of service trains. Commuter trains enter the junction from one direction (e.g., the Portadown line ), stop at Grand Central, and then continue out on the other direction towards Bangor station . Commuter trains on NI Railways are all diesel multiple unit railcars, so they do not need to use the junction as a turning method. The only other operational triangular junction in Ireland

2340-514: Is serviced by BNSF and a Union Pacific shoreline. The Ada Regional Airport (FAA Identifier: ADH), owned and operated by the City of Ada, is located two miles north of downtown, and is home to two major aeronautical industries—General Aviation Modifications, Inc. and Tornado Alley Turbo. From the early 1950s well into the 1960s, the airport was served by Central Airlines . Because of its short, palindromic spelling with frequently used letters, Ada

2418-516: Is within the Ada Public Schools school district. Ada Public Schools has six primary and secondary schools. Other school districts which have portions of Ada include: Byng Public Schools , Latta Public Schools , and Stonewall Public Schools . The Latta district has one comprehensive high school: Latta High School . Pontotoc Technology Center (formerly Pontotoc Area Vo-Tech) is located in Ada. Major highways are: Rail Freight

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2496-664: The Amtrak Auto Train in Sanford , Florida , uses a wye to turn the locomotives around for the return trip north. A road that crosses the eastern side of the wye allows access to the inner part of the wye where there is a rock supply company. In Arizona , the Grand Canyon Railway (GCRY) has a wye at both the Williams and South Rim/ Grand Canyon Village termini of its line. The train is turned around at

2574-637: The Bay Area Rapid Transit system is the Oakland Wye . Located beneath Downtown Oakland , California, the vast majority of the system's trains run through the wye primarily to and from San Francisco with some services running north and south along the East Bay . This section of track is considered a bottleneck for system-wide capacity based on speed restrictions and timing difficulties from distant branch lines. The southern terminus of

2652-559: The Canadian Valley Construction Company , which was also owned by Carter unbeknownst to the Dutch financiers. Preliminary cost estimates were quickly shown to be inadequate due to unexpected quantities of hard rock to be removed. The line was constructed with a maximum gradient of 2% and to Class I standards, despite being a short line. Suspecting that a finance scam may have been underfoot, Van Oss sent

2730-517: The IND Rockaway Line , serving A and Rockaway Park Shuttle trains all day. The wye was named after a past station, Hammels station . Convoluted wye , turning star or reversing star ( Italian : Stella di inversione ) is a special wye layout used in places where the space is tight. It has a pentagram -like form and consists of five turnouts (versus three for a wye) and three, four or five diamond crossings . Because of this,

2808-501: The London Underground 's Circle Line ). Several different techniques can be used to achieve such turning. Turntables require the least space, but can generally only deal with a single piece of equipment at a time. Balloon or turning loops can turn trains of any length — up to the total length of the loop — in a single operation, but require far more space than wyes. Rail wyes can be constructed on sites where

2886-667: The National Register of Historic Places listings in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma : Ada is located in the rolling hills of southeastern Oklahoma. Ada is 88 miles (142 km) from Oklahoma City , 122 mi (196 km) from Tulsa , and 133 mi (214 km) from Dallas, Texas . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 15.8 square miles (40.9 km ), of which 15.7 square miles (40.7 km )

2964-510: The Oklahoma Central Railway also served the town. Ada was originally a sundown town , where African Americans were not allowed to live. In the 1900s, the town was opened up to African Americans so that black witnesses could stay while testifying in district court . Ada began allowing Black people to open restaurants, barber shops, stores, and hotels by court order as to offer places where "negro witnesses might stay during

3042-543: The rope-hauled inclines to the highest level of the railway before they proceeded down the remaining inclines. The site of this can still be seen near Hindlow, in Derbyshire . ( National Grid location grid reference ST316887 .). Sefton railway station in Sydney lies on one corner of a triangular junction, which allows trains to branch off in either direction without the need to terminate or change ends. One train

3120-588: The Grady County Sheriff’s Office on the north side of town. The OCR crossed the present-day UP and BNSF diamonds at an angle from the southeast and backed into the station. The above is not to be confused with the Oklahoma Central Railroad formed January 12, 1987, which performed switching services at El Reno, Oklahoma . That railway ended service in 1988, and its line was then abandoned. Ada, Oklahoma Ada

3198-605: The Limerick Junction station, and is also occasionally used to turn steam locomotives on railtours, whilst the latter is used primarily by freight trains running between the Port of Waterford and County Mayo to avoid having to run around in Kilkenny station. In Belfast , Northern Ireland, a triangular junction exists at Grand Central station . It is rarely used to turn locomotives, save the occasional steam engine. It

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3276-532: The OCR routed two or three miles (5 km) away from the community. Management would then negotiate with local farmers to purchase land (using bond notes supplied by the Dutch) and then plat a new town around the railroad. The communities were given the option of purchasing the new lots (for cash) or attempting to survive without rail service. This practice was well documented by the Chickasaw News in 1906,

3354-532: The OCR was largely provided by investors on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange , through a bond issue backed by veteran financial writer Frederik Van Oss . Carter, who was a prominent lawyer, banker, and developer in Purcell, I.T., approached Van Oss through a group of Chicago banking acquaintances and secured an initial issue of $ 852,000. Construction of the line began in late 1905 at Lehigh by

3432-559: The South Rim/Grand Canyon Village wye with the passengers on board. At the Williams end, the train is turned around after the passengers disembark. The Chowchilla Wye is a primary feature of the planned California High-Speed Rail System. It will allow for transfers from feeder services on the third leg and facilitate more routing options as future phases are completed. Hammel's Wye is a primary feature of

3510-759: The West Clare line, the Monkstown / Greenisland / Bleach Green triangle on the Northern Counties Committee and Bundoran Junction on the Great Northern Railway . Though two sides of the former are still in mainline use, the "back line" between Monkstown and Greenisland has been removed, whilst the latter was closed altogether in 1957. Additionally, the Great Northern's largest locomotive yard at Adelaide never had

3588-495: The [court] session". Unnamed individuals threatened them, writing that "unless they left the town immediately they must suffer the consequences." When the threats went unanswered, unnamed parties blew up a Black restaurant with dynamite, seriously injuring one occupant. According to the Arkansas City Daily Traveler article, published on March 30, 1904, "This action has been condemned by many citizens and

3666-468: The area re-developed; the sidings at Valley some 4 miles (6.4 km) from the terminus are the nearest suitable site. An unusual arrangement, unique in Britain, was constructed at Grantham . Its location was grid reference SK914349 and it is shown on the 1963 edition of OS 1 inch to 1 mile sheet 113. It was built in the 1950s after the turntable at the locomotive shed failed and expenditure on

3744-504: The busy East Coast Main Line . Eventually authority was given to construct a turning arrangement on a strip of spare land to the west of the main line, just south of Grantham station. There was insufficient space for a conventional triangle but this was overcome by constructing an "inside-out" triangle whereby the approach tracks intersected in a scissors crossing. Many North American passenger terminals in large cities had wye tracks to allow

3822-694: The coal-burning steam locomotives of the Santa Fe had primarily switched to fuel oil, and the coal traffic from Lehigh became less profitable. A coal miner's strike in 1911 ended the mines and the OCR lost a major component of its revenue stream. The assets of the Oklahoma Central Railway Company, along with its two affiliates—the Ada Terminal Railway Company and the Chickasha Terminal Railway Company -- were formed into

3900-494: The incoming lines. A turning wye is a specific case. Where two rail lines join, or where a spur diverges from a railroad's mainline, wyes can be used at a mainline rail junction to allow incoming trains to travel in either direction. Wyes can also be used for turning railway equipment, and generally cover less area than a balloon loop doing the same job, but at the cost of two additional sets of points to construct and then maintain. These turnings are accomplished by performing

3978-605: The land is cheap, and also because it provides the most convenient and flexible sectioning arrangements. The earliest British (and possibly worldwide) example is the double-tracked triangle within Earlestown railway station on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , which was completed by the Grand Junction Railway in 1837. The triangle has two passenger platform faces on each of its three sides and five of

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4056-402: The locomotives could be uncoupled from the train and sent to the engine terminal to be serviced for their next assignment. Then, the head-end cars could be uncoupled from the rest of the train and spotted by a station switcher at the parcel facility where mail and express packages were handled. The departing train was reassembled, freshly cleaned and serviced for the next journey. A steam pipe from

4134-550: The main station in either direction without the need to reverse. In a midline station where it is desired to reverse a consist or locomotive, a double-track and turning wye arrangement is far more common. The land within a triangle is cut off from the adjacent area (and normally fenced off) and has marginal commercial value, so will be purposed mainly for the railway's exclusive use – generally being used for maintenance depots, storage, or vehicle parking. On electrified lines substations tend to be located inside triangles, in part because

4212-557: The mid and late 20th century, the town was a manufacturing center, producing products such as Wrangler jeans , auto parts, cement and concrete, plasticware, and other products. Since the start of the 21st century, manufacturers have made major investments in expansions and new technology. In 1975, the Chickasaw Nation opened its headquarters in Ada. Revenues for the Nation were over 12 billion dollars in 2011, most of which

4290-537: The national spotlight in his nonfiction work The Innocent Man , relating a similar story in the convictions of Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz for the murder of Debra Sue Carter. After 12 years on death row, DNA evidence proved the men's innocence and established the guilt of the prosecution's main witness. Similar problems surrounded the trials of the two men convicted for the murder of Denice Haraway. Prosecutor Bill Peterson has self-published his disagreements with Grisham's version of events. In 2018, Grisham's book

4368-736: The opposite leg from the one it reversed on upon arrival. The Keddie Wye in Keddie, California , was built by the Western Pacific Railroad and is a remarkable engineering feat. Two sides of the wye are built on tall trestles and one side is in a tunnel bored through solid rock. The town of Wyeville, Wisconsin , is named after the Union Pacific Railway , formerly the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company wye and crossover nearby. A primary feature of

4446-452: The power unit at the lower end and seating angled to compensate for the gradient. They therefore have to be turned at the summit should it be necessary to make a through journey. Whilst limitations of space dictated that the triangle had to be partly constructed in tunnels it also ensures that in winter it is snow-free and thus readily available in emergencies. In Britain triangular layouts that could be used for turning locomotives were usually

4524-594: The provision of a turntable was impractical or unnecessarily expensive. These included: A triangular junction is used to turn tramcars on the Portland Cable Tram line in Portland , Victoria . In the Republic of Ireland two triangular junctions are in use. One is at Limerick Junction , and the other at Lavistown , near Kilkenny . The former allows direct Limerick–Dublin passenger trains to bypass

4602-435: The railway equivalent of a three-point turn through successive junctions of the wye. The direction of travel and the relative orientation of a locomotive or railway vehicle thus can be reversed. Where a wye is built specifically for equipment reversing purposes, one or more of the tracks making up the junction will typically be a stub siding . Tram or streetcar tracks also make use of triangular junctions and sometimes have

4680-530: The result of junctions of two or more lines. There are many examples, including the one known as the Maindee triangle in Newport , South Wales. Here the ex- GWR South Wales mainline from London to Swansea is joined by another GWR line from Shrewsbury via Hereford . The significance of it is that steam-hauled trains can run to Newport and their engines be turned using the triangle. Its National Grid location

4758-525: The six platforms are in frequent (half-hourly, etc.) use by passenger trains. When steam engines were in regular use the triangle (which is of course also traversed by freight trains) was also used to turn locomotives, and can still be so used. An earlier example may be on the Cromford and High Peak Railway , which had been opened in 1831 as a horse-drawn railway. This appears to have been used for reversing trains of wagons with end doors that have just come up

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4836-417: The station to facilitate the turning of trains. An arriving train came to a stop on the main line after passing the wye. Once the switches on the wye are aligned, the train reversed, with the brakeman at the rear of the last car regulating the speed with the brake lever upon approach to the platform. After coming to a complete stop at the end of the track, passengers were allowed to disembark safely. Meanwhile,

4914-399: The station's steam generator could have been attached to the train's steam line from the rear to supply heat until the locomotives were coupled up front to supply steam. The train was announced for boarding with a list of destinations. With switches aligned, the train slowly departed to the main line, continuing on its journey or returning toward the direction from which it arrived by rounding

4992-519: The summit of the Brenner Pass . Tsumeb railway station in Namibia has two triangles. The first and smaller one is for turning engines and is near the station. The second and larger one is to bypass the dead-end station at Tsumeb for trains travelling directly between the new extension towards Angola and Windhoek . This direct bypass line can save an hour of shunting time, particularly if

5070-520: The train is longer than the loops in the station. There is a turning triangle partly tunnelled into the mountain at Kleine Scheidegg at the summit of the 800mm gauge Wengernalpbahn in the Bernese Oberland , Switzerland. Kleine Scheidegg is reached from two lower termini, Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald , located on opposite sides of the col . Trains normally descend in the direction they have arrived from and are designed accordingly with

5148-650: The turning and backing of directional passenger trains onto a main line. Freight traffic could bypass the terminal through the wye. Notable examples include the Los Angeles Union Station , which has a double wye, the Saint Paul Union Depot , and the Memphis Union Station . A typical use for a stub-end passenger station would be as follows: A wye was incorporated at the "throat" where the rows of tracks converged from

5226-582: The turnouts on those sharp curves, restrict train speeds to between 10 and 50 km/h (6.2 and 31.1 mph). Near Hamilton station on the Central Coast and Newcastle line there is a wye for freight trains and regional trains. This puts them directly on the main northern line A number of triangular junctions were built on the Victorian Railways network, both at major junctions, and for turning locomotives and train consists in places where

5304-403: The use of triangular junctions and reversing wyes on streetcar and tram systems. Many, although by no means all, streetcar and tram systems use single ended vehicles that have doors on one side only, and that must be turned at each end of the route. However, the vehicles used on such systems tend to have much smaller minimum curvature requirements than heavy rail equipment. This renders the use of

5382-415: The woods behind a large metal industrial building are the remains of the bridge approaches over Walnut Creek. This wooden bridge was washed out by a flood at an unknown date. The only stretch of surviving OCR main line is in place across the street to the north of this, a single switch and hundred feet or so of track . The switch was the interchange wye with the Santa Fe's Purcell yards; after 1934 this

5460-469: Was $ 22,977, while median family income was $ 31,805. Males had a median income of $ 25,223 versus $ 17,688 for females. Ada's per capita income was $ 14,666. Some 14.8% of families and 21.4% of the population were below the poverty line , including 27.8% of those under 18 and 11.4% of those 65 or over. An estimated 2,000-3,000 residents speak the Chickasaw language . The economy of Ada is diversified. In

5538-512: Was 73.81% White , 3.54% African American , 15.10% Native American , 0.83% Asian , 0.01% Pacific Islander , 0.89% from other races , and 5.81% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 2.89% of the population. Of Ada's 6,697 households, 25.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.6% were married couples living together, 12.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.2% were non-families. The 15.8% of those 65 years or older living alone made up

5616-438: Was American outlaw Deacon Jim Miller , who was set to be tried for the murder of a former U.S. marshal and member of the local freemason lodge. The town had a population of about 5,000 at the time, and 38 murders a year at the time of the lynching. The Daily Ardmoreite reported that the four lynched men were "one of the bloodiest band of murderers in the state of Oklahoma and an organization of professional assassins, that for

5694-436: Was adapted into a Netflix series, also titled The Innocent Man , combining and extending the cases outlined in his and Mayer's books. Wye (railroad) In railroad structures and rail terminology , a wye (like the 'Y' glyph ) or triangular junction (often shortened to just triangle ) is a triangular joining arrangement of three rail lines with a railroad switch (set of points) at each corner connecting to

5772-483: Was built before other structures, and railway builders had much more freedom to lay down tracks where they wished. Similarly, when not constrained by space limitations many early Australian railways made use of wyes (particularly in rural locations) for their lower installation and maintenance costs; however, their necessity and use diminished from the 1960s onwards with the major trend in most states toward bidirectional locomotives and railcars. In Europe, although some use

5850-625: Was made of bi-directional tank locomotives and push–pull trains , most steam locomotives were uni-directional. Because of land usage considerations, turntables were normally used to turn such locomotives, and most terminal stations and locomotive depots were so equipped. Over time, most diesel and electric locomotives ordered in Europe have been designed to be fully bi-directional and normally with two driving cabs. Thus most rail wyes, where they existed, and turntables have been taken out of use. Similar considerations as for mainline rail systems apply to

5928-423: Was operated as a branch until 1971. Chickasha to Cole trackage was removed in 1956, and Cole to Purcell was abandoned in 1964. The mainline of the OCR is on the west side of highway 75 as it enters town. At the south edge of town, a wye curved to the east to service mine No. 8. The tracks curved west sharply at the north edge of town and passed between two mine pits on a narrow patch of unexcavated ground. Ada

6006-530: Was reached by a 1.93 mile long spur built by an Oklahoma Central affiliate, the Ada Terminal Railroad, that left the mainline near the present location of the US-177 junction. The depot at Ada, built by the Santa Fe in 1914, still stands on the west end of town. The Stratford depot is still standing on S. Hyden and is used as the city hall. An abandoned bridge’s supports still stand, but there

6084-611: Was the only way OCR trackage was accessed to the West. As of 2015, this too has been removed and only the ties remain overgrown by trees. The original depot was located between 13th and 14th on Main Street (present day 5th and 6th street and main) according to the Sanborn Map Company Feb, 1926. There are no remnants of the depot today. The excellent two story brick depot and offices are intact and presently being used by

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