The story
The company, originally known as the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, completed its main line between West Memphis, Arkansas, and western Oklahoma by 1900. In 1901, the CO&G chartered a subsidiary company, the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Texas Railroad, to continue construction west into the Texas Panhandle, and by 1902, the railroad had extended as far west as Amarillo.
From Wikipedia’s article on Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4