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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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]
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
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 ]