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  2. History of rail in Oregon - Wikipedia

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    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. Pengra ...

  3. List of Oregon railroads - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Rail transportation in Oregon - Wikipedia

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    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. While the automobile has displaced many uses of rail in the state (as elsewhere), rail remains a ...

  5. Portland and Southwestern Railroad Tunnel - Wikipedia

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    The tunnel was driven by the Portland and Southwestern Railroad, whose chief business was logging. Unusually for a logging railroad, the Portland and Southwestern built tunnels. In order to reach the far side of the Nehalem divide in the Northern Oregon Coast Range, the railroad undertook a 1,712-foot (522 m) tunnel. Some work was started in ...

  6. Oregon Short Line Railroad - Wikipedia

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    1923 map of the railroad Oregon Short Line locomotive & tender No. 877, c. 1906. The Oregon Short Line Railroad (reporting mark OSL) was a railroad in Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Montana and Oregon in the United States. The line was organized as the Oregon Short Line Railway in 1881 as a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railway.

  7. Oregon Pacific Railroad (1880–1894) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. List of tunnels documented by the Historic American ...

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    Southern Pacific Railroad Natron Cutoff, Tunnel 5 1927 1997 Southern Pacific Railroad, Cascade Subdivision: Unnamed point McCredie Springs: Lane: OR-94: Southern Pacific Railroad Natron Cutoff, Tunnel 22 1910 1997

  9. Oregon Rail Heritage Center - Wikipedia

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    The Oregon Rail Heritage Center (ORHC) is a railway museum in Portland, Oregon. Along with other rolling stock, the museum houses three steam locomotives owned by the City of Portland: Southern Pacific 4449 , Spokane, Portland & Seattle 700 , and Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. 197 , [ 1 ] the first two of which are restored and operable. [ 2 ]