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The Sumpter Valley Railway, or Sumpter Valley Railroad, is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge heritage railroad located in Baker County, in the U.S. state of Oregon.Built on a right-of-way used by the original railway of the same name, it carries excursion trains on a roughly 5-mile (8.0 km) route between McEwen and Sumpter. [2]
Also known as the Oregon Lumber Company Railroad, it was designed by engineer Joseph A. West. A linear historic district including 16.2 miles out of 23 original miles on the spur, from near Bates, Oregon, to the Mitchell Tract, historic end of the railroad, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
Sumpter: This gold dredge was used in placer mining along the Powder River from 1935 to 1954, representing a period of mining by dredge that began in 1913. The last of three dredges in the Sumpter Valley in that period, it produced some $4.5 million in gold in its career. It is preserved as a museum. [8] [9] 12: Sumpter Valley Railway Historic ...
Sumpter Valley Railway Passenger Station was the westernmost station on the Sumpter Valley Railway, which ran 80 miles (130 km) from Baker City to Prairie City in the U.S. state of Oregon. [4] The line reached Prairie City in 1910 but was abandoned in 1933, and the station became a private dwelling. [ 5 ]
Feb. 28—The snow still lies deep in Sumpter, but preparations are underway for the 2022 season of the Sumpter Valley Railroad. The restrooms and picnic shelters now have new roofs at the McEwen ...
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CSAR experimental Mallet, SAR Class MD Ordered from ALCO, it was the first Mallet on the CSAR and, with its full working order weight of 157 long tons (159.5 tonnes; 175.8 short tons), it was the heaviest locomotive in the world working on 3 ft 6 in gauge at the time. It had Walschaerts valve gear and used saturated steam.
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