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Port of Inola Verdigris Southern rail spur
4.4-mile Verdigris Southern Railroad linking the Port of Inola to the Union Pacific
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- Buyer
- City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority (Tulsa Ports)
- Where
- Oklahoma · Inola
- Segments
- Track, Civil works
- Technology areas
- Track & civil
- Status
- In execution — Complete: the line was dedicated in June 2024; Watco's Verdigris Southern Railroad operates it.
- Value band
- $5–25m
- Currency
- USD
- Key dates (month)
- Dedication story published June 2024 · Port repost July 2024
Next step
Recorded award: Tulsa Ports — Operates the Verdigris Southern Railroad serving the Port of Inola
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6 sources · 4 primary
- ● Tulsa Ports: Verdigris Southern Railroad dedication (11 July 2024) · Reprint of a 5 June 2024 State Department of Commerce story: new 4.4-mile railroad connecting the Tulsa Port of Inola to the Union Pacific, a four-year project with USDOT, MARAD, ODOT, Commerce, Rogers County, Watco and Union Pacific among partners (published 2024-07-11 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ○ Waterways Journal: Infrastructure Investment Pays Dividends For Tulsa Ports (28 March 2025) · Trade-press article giving a $20 million figure for the Port of Inola rail spur that opened in 2024 and describing Catoosa's BNSF and SKOL connections. Secondary: the port publishes no cost (published 2025-03-28 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Oklahoma State Rail Plan, June 2026 (Version 1.0, draft) · ODOT's draft 2026 State Rail Plan as posted for comment: Freight Mobility Branch, 142 miles of state-owned track, Heartland Flyer funding tables 2-6 and 2-7, CRISI and RCE awards, Tulsa Ports rail projects, passenger rail chapter and the 107-project Rail Service and Investment Program. A draft, not an adopted plan (published 2026-06 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ○ Railway Age: Report: Port of Inola's Rail Project Advances (5 December 2022) · Trade-press report of the port authority's construction contract award for the 4.4-mile Inola rail spur, citing a 4 December 2022 Tulsa World report; web.archive.org copy because railwayage.com blocks automated clients (published 2022-12-05 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● USAspending award 693JF72140028 (MARAD INFRA, Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority) · MARAD Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects award of $6,189,327 to the City of Tulsa - Rogers County Port Authority, signed 19 August 2022, period to 30 April 2025; purpose given only as advancing freight and highway projects. Linked to the Inola spur by the port's June 2022 statement that an INFRA grant made it possible and Railway Age's report of a USDOT INFRA grant (published 2022-08-19 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Tulsa Ports: Demand for Rail Strong, Expected to Rise (14 June 2022) · Port repost of a June 2022 magazine story: the Inola rail line was made possible by a federal INFRA grant with public and private matches, was going out to bid and was expected to cost north of $12 million, with Sofidel America as first client (published 2022-06-14 · checked 2026-10-08)
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