Central Kansas Railway

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Central Kansas Railway
Reporting marks CKRY
Locale Kansas
Dates of operation 19922001
Track gauge ft 8½ in (1435 mm) (standard gauge)
Headquarters Wichita, KS

The Central Kansas Railway (CKR) (AAR reporting marks CKRY) was a short-line railroad operating 900 miles (1,448 km) of trackage in the U.S. state of Kansas, most all of which were former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway lines. Owned by Omnitrax, CKR's main business was from the Kansas wheat harvests, as well as other traffic.

The Watco Companies of Pittsburg, Kansas purchased all of the CKR's lines on May 31, 2001 and formed the Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad.