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The Willamette Valley and Coast Railroad Depot is a former railway station located in Corvallis, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] It was constructed in 1887 by the Willamette Valley and Coast Railroad (WV&C), which since 1880 had been controlled by the Oregon Pacific Railroad Company.
Oregon Pacific Railroad was a railroad in western Oregon, United States, from 1880 to 1894, when it was sold to the Oregon Central and Eastern Railroad. A substantial part of the Oregon Pacific's abandoned right-of-way is preserved as Oregon Pacific Railroad Linear Historic District. It was created and owned by Thomas Egenton Hogg. [2] [3]
The remaining stretch line constructed by the Willamette Valley and Coast Railroad, running between Corvallis and Toledo, is today part of the Portland and Western Railroad. In 1909 the Oregon legislature repealed a law giving the WV&C title to the overflowed and tidal lands adjoining the Alsea River , Siletz River , and Yaquina Bay.
Corvallis and Eastern Railroad: Oregon Eastern Railway: SP, UP: 1905 1912 Central Pacific Railway, Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company: Oregon Electric Railway: OE GN/ NP: 1906 1981 Burlington Northern (Oregon–Washington), Inc. Electric until 1945 Oregon and Northwestern Railroad: ONW 1934 1984 N/A Oregon Pacific Railroad: SP ...
The Western Oregon Railroad was a railway company in the state of Oregon in the United States. It was established by the bondholders of the Oregon and California Railroad to further extend the route of the "West Side" Oregon Central Railroad south toward Corvallis, Oregon. All three companies were consolidated in 1880.
The two routes connected in Saint Joseph, just north of McMinnville, and continued to Corvallis as a single line. [3] Service to Corvallis was inaugurated on June 17, 1917. [1] The main Portland–Corvallis line was 88 miles (142 km) long, and the entire Red Electric network encompassed 180 miles (290 km) of track, served by 64 trains per day. [1]
Rail transportation is an important element of the transportation network in the U.S. state of Oregon. Rail transportation has existed in Oregon in some form since 1855, [1] [2] and the state was a pioneer in development of electric railway systems.
January 27, 2000 (Roughly bounded by SW 2nd, 6th, and Jefferson Streets, and the Highway 20/34 Bypass: Corvallis: Located on several of Corvallis's earliest plats, the historic houses in this residential district present a window into the domestic aspects of the city's development from 1870 to 1949, providing a full industrial, socioeconomic, and architectural profile of that period.