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((Infobox rail | gauge=((Track gauge|ussg|allk=on))|
  railroad_name=Midland Valley Railroad|
  logo_filename= MrLogo.JPG |
  logo_size= 230px |
  system_map = Mvmap.JPG |
  map_size = 300 |
  map_caption = Midland Valley R.R. map|
  marks= MV |
  locale=[[Arkansas]], [[Kansas]], [[Oklahoma]]|
  start_year=1903| end_year=1964|
  successor_line=[[Texas and Pacific Railway|Texas and Pacific]]|
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The '''Midland Valley Railroad''' ('''MV''') was a railroad company incorporated on June 4, 1903 for the purpose of building a line from [[Hope, Arkansas]], through [[Muskogee, Oklahoma|Muskogee]] and [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]] to [[Wichita, Kansas]]. It was backed by C. Jared Ingersoll, a Philadelphia industrialist who owned [[coal mining in the United States|coal mining]] properties in Indian Territory (now part of the state of Oklahoma).<ref name="AbandonedOK">[http://www.abandonedok.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=1429 "Midland Valley Depot in Pawhuska, OK."] Accessed May 11, 2015.</ref> The railroad took its name from [[Midland, Arkansas]], a coal mining town in western Arkansas, which was served by the railroad.((efn|The railroad also adopted the slogan, "Arkansas River Route," because much of its length paralleled that river between Wichita, Kansas and Fort Smith.<ref name="AbandonedOK"/>)) The Midland Valley gained access to [[Fort Smith, Arkansas]] via trackage rights over the [[St. Louis-San Francisco|Frisco]] from [[Rock Island, Oklahoma]].

In 1967, the Midland Valley Railroad was merged into the Texas & Pacific Railroad, which was absorbed by the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1983.

==History==
MV reached Tulsa in 1904, and completed construction of its initial system in 1906 upon reaching [[Arkansas City, Kansas]]. The same year it opened a branch to the [[Glenn Pool Oil Reserve|Glenn Pool oil field]], which generated a lot of traffic and stimulated MV's revenues. MV extended that line as far as [[Kiefer, Oklahoma|Kiefer]] but closed the Glenn Pool-Kiefer section in 1936. [[Wichita, Kansas]] was reached in 1911, with the lease of the Wichita and Midland Valley railroad. Service to Wichita ended in 1966, and the northern section of the road was pared back to [[Barnsdall, Oklahoma]]. Passenger service ended in 1934. Competition from other railroads caused a decline in MV's fortunes, especially during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name ="EOHC-MV">[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=MI008 Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr., "Midland Valley Railroad," ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''.] Accessed May 11, 2015.</ref>

The line was known as one of the [[Muskogee Roads]]. [[Muskogee, Oklahoma]] was home to the Midland Valley's headquarters and shops, and its owner, the [[Muskogee Company]], operated out of Muskogee even though its corporate headquarters were in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].<ref name ="EOHC-MV"/> In 1925, the Midland Valley acquired the [[Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway]], and the Muskogee Company purchased a third railroad [[Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Railway]] in 1929.<ref name="UTexas">((cite web|url=https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/smu/00131/smu-00131.html| title= Muskogee Company records, Part 1| publisher= The University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas Libraries | access-date=February 29, 2020))</ref>   

The most serious accident on the Midland Valley system occurred February 1, 1958. Westbound train 41 collided head-on with eastbound train 42 on the curve at [[Bokoshe, Oklahoma]]. Four crew members died and seven were injured.<ref>((cite web|url= http://condrenrails.com/FSVB/Midland%20Valley/MV-Bokoshe-Wreck.htm |title= MV Wreck Bokoshe,OK 2/1/58|publisher=Condrenrails.com|access-date=October 23, 2019))</ref>

==End of the line==
All three railroads were operated as more or less common property by the Muskogee Company until sale of all three to the [[Missouri Pacific Railroad]] (MoPac) in 1964. The Midland Valley was merged into the [[Texas & Pacific Railroad]] (T&P), a MoPac subsidiary on April 1, 1967. MoPac merged into the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) in 1983.<ref name="AbandonedOK"/> Operated as branch lines for a number of years, most of the Midland Valley has now been abandoned.<ref name ="EOHC-MV"/>

Much of the former route has been converted from rail to trail, such as the 14.5 mile Osage Prairie Trail between [[Tulsa, Oklahoma|Tulsa]] and [[Skiatook, Oklahoma|Skiatook]].<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.traillink.com/trail/osage-prairie-trail/ |title=Osage Prairie Trail|publisher=Rails to Trails Conservancy (US)|access-date=October 23, 2019))</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
((Portal|Railways))
* [http://condrenrails.com/FSVB/Midland-Valley.htm Midland Valley]
* [https://library.okstate.edu/search-and-find/collections/digital-collections/oklahoma-digital-maps-collection/ Oklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian Territory]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V49fwhKY0Qo "Abandoned Midland Valley Depot in Pawhuska, OK."]  YouTube video of abandoned Midland Valley passenger station in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.

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