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To accommodate this new dilemma, the J.F Hart and Company (owned by John and George Hart) began planning and construction for the Tacoma Eastern Railroad. [ 2 ] In its pre-incorporation phase, the Tacoma Eastern Railroad was a 30-inch narrow gauge logging road, about two miles long, running from a shallow-water wharf at the head of Commencement ...
On August 21, 1905, the Oregon Eastern Railway was incorporated in the interest of the SP and Union Pacific Railroad (UP), [4] then both controlled by E. H. Harriman. This company surveyed a route from a line of SP lessor Oregon and California Railroad at Natron, near Springfield, over the Cascades in the direction of the UP near Ontario, Oregon.
In 1997, both railroads were officially merged into the Oregon Pacific Railroad with the East Portland Traction Company becoming the East Portland Division and the Molalla Western Railway becoming the Molalla Branch Division. As of 2012, the Oregon Pacific continues to operate its two railroads to provide freight service to its shippers. It ...
Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) is looking for opportunities to take more market share away from trucks, whether that means through investments or through its own service product, executives said during ...
The United States' first transcontinental railroad was built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. Its construction was considered to be one of the greatest American technological feats of the 19th century.
Eastern Daylight Time (North America) UTC−04:00: EEST: Eastern European Summer Time: UTC+03:00: EET: Eastern European Time: UTC+02:00: EGST: Eastern Greenland Summer Time: UTC+00:00: EGT: Eastern Greenland Time: UTC−01:00: EST: Eastern Standard Time (North America) UTC−05:00: ET (EST/EDT) Eastern Time (North America) UTC−05:00 / UTC− ...
Heat will hold on a bit longer and may not be slashed as much across the interior Northwest, but highs in the low to mid-100s will eventually be swapped with highs in the 80s to near 90 by this ...
Eastern Steamship Lines served as operator for the War Shipping Administration in World War II. The United States government requisitioned all of the fleets vessels for military duty on both the Atlantic and Pacific. Many of Eastern's ships would be torpedoed and sunk during the war, leaving few ships to return to service after the conflict was ...