Avard, OK interchange - Classic Trains Magazine

Change of track ownership was at Avard, but that was never more than a switch. Frisco trains terminated at Waynoka, about eleven miles west on the ATSF:

"In 1908 the Santa Fe Railway made Waynoka a division point and built Oklahoma's largest rail yards, operating twenty-four hours a day and eventually employing about one thousand machinists, boilermakers, sheet metal mechanics, fire builders, car men, switchmen, engineers, and others. Said to be the nation's largest, the ice plant built by the Railways Ice Company provided ice for refrigerator cars that hauled perishables on the railroad's main line from Chicago to Los Angeles. A roundhouse, maintenance and repair shops,a reading room, a depot, and a large Harvey House were built by the Santa Fe"

There was also a crew hotel, and it was the location where westbound steam helpers for the climb up Curtis Hill were serviced and attached.