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Willamette Valley Model Railroad Museum. A museum dedicated to telling the story of regional railroads via model railroading. [18] [19] Northwest Vintage Car & Motorcycle Museum. A museum dedicated to the heritage of the automobile and motorcycle. Among the exhibits is a replica of a 1930s Texaco service station. [20] Pacific Northwest Logging ...
Willamette Valley: Railroad: Electric trolleys, on the grounds of Antique Powerland: Oregon Film Museum: Astoria Clatsop Coast Film History and information on the 300+ movies that have been filmed in Oregon Oregon Fire Service Museum: Brooks: Marion Willamette Valley Firefighting Historical fire records, apparatus, equipment and memorabilia [59]
The group was founded in 1957, [1] [2] and is named in honor of the Oregon Electric Railway, a former interurban electric rail line in the Willamette Valley. OERHS operated a streetcar museum known as Trolley Park in Glenwood, Washington County, Oregon from 1966 [3] to 1995. The Trolley Park museum was formally named the Oregon Electric Railway ...
The Portland and Western Railroad (reporting mark PNWR) is a 516-mile (830 km) Class II railroad serving the U.S. state of Oregon, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of shortline and regional railroad holding company Genesee & Wyoming Inc. The PNWR includes a subsidiary, the Willamette and Pacific Railroad (reporting mark WPRR).
The Willamette Shore Trolley is a heritage railroad or heritage streetcar that operates along the west bank of the Willamette River between Portland and Lake Oswego in the U.S. state of Oregon. The right-of-way is owned by a group of local-area governments who purchased it in 1988 in order to preserve it for potential future rail transit. [1]
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
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 ...
Operational at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois EMD demonstrator unit [17] 17597 Rock Island 4506 October 1952 GP7R Chicago and North Western Transportation Company; Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad - Operational at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois [18] 18707 Illinois Terminal 1605 August 1953 GP7