Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company: Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company: UP: 1910 1987 Union Pacific Railroad: Oregon and Washington Territory Railroad: NP: 1886 1892 Washington and Columbia River Railway: Oregon Western Railroad: SP: 1889 1890 Oregonian Railroad: Oregon Western Railway: SP: 1905 1914 Willamette ...
The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (OR&N) was a rail and steamboat transport company that operated a rail network of 1,143 miles (1,839 km) running east from Portland, Oregon, United States, to northeastern Oregon, northeastern Washington, and northern Idaho. It operated from 1896 as a consolidation of several smaller railroads.
A map of Willamette Valley rail lines from 1919. Byron J. Pengra, the Surveyor General of Oregon from 1862 to 1865, secured a federal land grant in 1864 for the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road from Eugene to Owyhee, and proposed a railroad along this line, then joining the transcontinental railroad near Winnemucca, Nevada.
Pages in category "Oregon railroads" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. ... Oregon Pacific Railroad (1997) P. Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad;
Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad (CORP), a subsidiary of RailAmerica, provides service to Southwestern Oregon and northwestern California. Main line is former SP line over Siskiyou Pass between Eugene and Weed, California; cities served include Eugene, Cottage Grove, Roseburg, Grants Pass, Medford, and Ashland.
Oregon and Northwestern Railroad; Oregon and California Railroad; Oregon Central Railroad; Oregon Eastern Railway; Oregon Electric Railway; Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway; Oregon Pacific Railroad (1880–1894) Oregon Portage Railroad; Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company; Oregon Short Line Railroad; Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern ...
The railroad also expanded the westside line south to reach Perrydale, Dallas, Monmouth, Independence and Airlie. The stop at the end of the line was named after the Earl of Airlie, the leader of the Scot capitalists. Revenues were dropping, and by 1886 or 1887 the railroad granted a long-term lease to Henry Villard of the Oregon & California ...
The Western Oregon Railroad and Oregon Central Railroad were consolidated with the Oregon and California Railroad on October 9, 1880. [2] The Oregon and California remained part of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company system until 1927 when it was formally merged. [4] The Western Oregon's line, along with the Oregon Central's, was known ...