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The Modoc Northern Railroad (reporting mark MNRR) is a defunct railroad company that operated over 160 miles (260 km) of track in northeastern California and southern Oregon and was based in Tulelake, California. The railroad connected Klamath Falls to Alturas, California, and Lakeview, Oregon, to Alturas, California. The railroad shipped ...
Modoc Northern Railroad: Longview, Portland and Northern Railway: LPN 1952 1999 N/A LRY LLC (DBA Lake Railway) LRY 2009 2017 Goose Lake Railway LLC: Malheur Railroad: 1923 1928 Oregon and Northwestern Railroad: Malheur Valley Railway: UP: 1906 1910 Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company: Marion and Linn County Railroad: SP: 1918 1927
Traffic on the Gateway Subdivision consists of general merchandise freights and empty well car trains—as many as three of the latter each day. As of October 2011, there is one local freight that runs out of Klamath Falls twice weekly—south to Clear Creek Jct. on Monday and north to Klamath Falls on Tuesday, and south on Thursday and back north on Friday.
1905 photo of "Old Betsy," an O&C locomotive, taken in Scio, Oregon.. As part of the U.S. government's desire to foster settlement and economic development in the western states, in July 1866, Congress passed the Oregon and California Railroad Act, which made 3,700,000 acres (1,500,000 ha) of land available for a company that built a railroad from Portland, Oregon to San Francisco, distributed ...
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.
The Modoc Nation is a federally recognized tribe of Modoc people, located in Ottawa County in the northeast corner of Oklahoma and Modoc and Siskiyou counties in northeast California. [2] The smallest tribe in the state, they are descendants of Captain Jack 's band of Modoc people , removed in 1873 after the Modoc Wars from their traditional ...
Beginning in 1847, the Modoc raided the invading emigrants on the Applegate Trail [23] under the leadership of Old Chief Schonchin. [12] In September 1852, the Modoc destroyed an emigrant train at Bloody Point on the east shore of Tule Lake, killing all but three of the 65 people in the party. The Modoc took two young girls as captives.
Modoc warriors defending the Stronghold. After the Battle of Lost River in November 1872, Captain Jack's band settled into the area around stronghold for several months. The Modoc used the lava beds as a defensive stronghold because of the rough terrain, rocks that could be used in fortification, and irregular pathways to evade pursuers.