Download or read book Oregonian Railway The written by Ed Austin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To those with an interest in railroad history in the United States, mention of the words "narrow gauge" may bring to mind the extensive three-foot-gauge railroads of Colorado and Utah or perhaps the famous two-foot-gauge lines in Maine. However, few would think first of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Nonetheless, between 1877 and 1893, an extensive narrow-gauge railroad developed in Oregon" one that had aspirations of crossing the Cascade Mountains and connecting with the Central Pacific Railroad, thus giving Oregon its first access to the transcontinental railroad system. It is this railroad system, from its inception in 1877 to the present day, that Ed Austin explores herein.
Download or read book Oregonian Railway written by Ed Austin and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To those with an interest in railroad history in the United States, mention of the words "narrow gauge" may bring to mind the extensive three-foot-gauge railroads of Colorado and Utah or perhaps the famous two-foot-gauge lines in Maine. However, few would think first of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Nonetheless, between 1877 and 1893, an extensive narrow-gauge railroad developed in Oregon-- one that had aspirations of crossing the Cascade Mountains and connecting with the Central Pacific Railroad, thus giving Oregon its first access to the transcontinental railroad system. It is this railroad system, from its inception in 1877 to the present day, that Ed Austin explores herein.
Download or read book To the Columbia Gateway written by Peter J. Lewty and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the Columbia Gateway captures the excitement of the 19th-century frontier, covering the origins of the Northern Pacific Railroad and the Oregon Railway and Navigation companies, the rise and fall of Henry Villard's first empire, and the completion of the transcontinental tracks that converged on the Columbia Gateway in the late 19th century.
Download or read book Defunct Oregon Railroads written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railway, Southern Pacific Transportation Company, List of Oregon railroads, Burlington Northern Railroad, Red Electric, Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, Oregon Steam Navigation Company, Nevada-California-Oregon Railway, Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, Oregon Eastern Railway, Oregon Central Railroad, Oregon and California Railroad, Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway, Sumpter Valley Railway, Oregon Short Line Railroad, Oregon Electric Railway, Great Southern Railroad, Oregon Pacific Railroad, Mount Hood Railway and Power Company, Columbia Southern Railway, Malheur Valley Railway, Columbia River and Oregon Central Railroad, Oregonian Railway, Longview, Portland and Northern Railway, Great Western Railway of Colorado, Dayton, Sheridan and Grande Ronde Railroad, Modoc Northern Railroad, Umatilla Central Railroad, Portland and Willamette Valley Railway. Excerpt: The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was a railway that operated in the west along the Canadian border of the United States. Construction began in 1870 and the main line opened all the way from the Great Lakes to the Pacific when former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in central Montana on Sept. 8, 1883. The railroad served a large area, including extensive trackage in the states of Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin. In addition the company had international lines to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and southeastern British Columbia, Canada. The company was headquartered first in Brainerd, Minnesota, then in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In 1970 it merged with other lines to form the Burlington Northern Railroad. Map of NPR Land Grant, c1890The Northern Pacific Railway Company was chartered by Congress on July 2, 1864; it was formed with the...
Download or read book Oregon Northwestern Railroad written by Jeff Moore and Wayne I. Monger and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1922, the US Forest Service offered one of the largest timber sales in the agency's history, encompassing 890 million board feet of mostly Ponderosa pine timber in the mountains north of Burns, Oregon. Among other requirements, the sale terms required the successful bidder to build and operate 80 miles of common carrier railroad through some of the most remote and undeveloped country in the state. The Fred Herrick Lumber Company and its Malheur Railroad initially won the bidding, only to lose it when a crash in the lumber market forced the company into insolvency. The Edward Hines Lumber Company of Chicago picked up the pieces, and from 1929 until 1984, its subsidiary Oregon & Northwestern Railroad made a living hauling logs, lumber, and occasional livestock between Burns and Seneca, Oregon.
Download or read book Biennial Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of Oregon to the Legislative Assembly written by Oregon. Board of Railroad Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oregon Water Power and Railway Company written by Oregon Water Power and Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1910* with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wealth and Resources of Oregon and Washington the Pacific Northwest written by Union Pacific Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biennial Report written by Oregon. Board of Railroad Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Oregon Country written by Harvey Whitefield Scott and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrow Gauge Oregon Railroads written by Tom Madden and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Oregon Days written by Edwin D. Culp and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press How did people travel in the good old days? Ed Culp traces the history of transportation in the West, particularly into Oregon. Old photos, maps, drawings, advertisements and transportation schedules illustrate how improvements were made, with emphasis on the development of the railroad.
Download or read book Stations West written by Edwin D. Culp and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most of us have felt the fascination of seeing a steam locomotive with smoke drifting back over the line of cars it pulled, as the whole train wound through tall Western mountains. Whether we have actually experienced it or not, and many have, we know such a thing existed and that it is now part of a past that we can't touch again. But in Stations West, Edwin Culp comes close. With four hundred eighty photographs, carefully collected over a period of more than twenty years, he presents an exciting graphic history of Oregon railways from their beginnings to the present. Following the tracks as they were laid, from the Willamette Valley to the Oregon desert, he illustrates, in all its many facets, a heritage which has passed"--
Download or read book Railway Palaces of Portland Oregon The Architectural Legacy of Henry Villard written by Alexander Benjamin Craghead and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1883, railroad financier Henry Villard brought Portland and the Pacific Northwest their first transcontinental railroad. Earning a reputation for boldness on Wall Street, the war correspondent turned entrepreneur set out to establish Portland as a bourgeoning metropolis. To realize his vision, he hired architects McKim, Mead & White to design a massive passenger station and a first-class hotel. Despite financial panics, lost fortunes and stalled construction, the Portland Hotel opened in 1890 and remained the social heart of the city for sixty years. While the original station was never built, Villard returned as a pivotal benefactor of Union Station, saving its iconic clock tower in the process. Author Alexander Benjamin Craghead tells the story of this Gilded Age patron and the architecture that helped shape the city's identity.
Download or read book Biennial Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of Oregon to the Legislative Assembly Regular Session written by Oregon. Board of Railroad Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sumpter Valley Railway written by Alfred Mullett and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1890, David Eccles and Charles Nibley chartered the Sumpter Valley Railway and changed the social and physical landscape of Eastern Oregon forever. The Sumpter Valley Railway and its parent company, the Oregon Lumber Company, became an economic engine that shaped the lives of generations of Eastern Oregonians. The rails stretched from Baker to Prairie City, Sumpter to Susanville, and laced ribbons of steel through the Powder River Valley and Elkhorns. This photographic history is a view into the life and times of a varied, interesting, and living railroad that was instrumental in the shaping of Eastern Oregon.
Download or read book Two Years in Oregon written by Wallis Nash and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
