Oregon Eastern Railway
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The Oregon Eastern Railway was a predecessor of the
Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company
.
The Natron Cutoff is on the National Register of Historic Places, considered significant to the period 1905 to 1945.[1] The eastern line is now the similarly named Oregon Eastern Railroad
History
Starting in 1903, the
Dorris on May 1, 1908, the Oregon state line on August 25, 1908, Worden on November 25, 1908, Ady on January 1, 1909, and finally the whole 86.15 miles (138.64 km) to Klamath Falls, Oregon on May 20, 1909.[3]
On August 21, 1905, the Oregon Eastern Railway was incorporated in the interest of the SP and
Oakridge and Chiloquin to Kirk, in May and September 1912 respectively.[3] However, work was then placed on hold while the federal government decided whether the SP's lease of the CP violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. (It had already broken up the SP-UP combination in 1913.[6]
)
The
As for the line into eastern Oregon, the Oregon Eastern sold its surveys and right-of-way to new UP subsidiary
Burns, which it leased to UP subsidiary Oregon Short Line Railroad for operation.[4]
All of the Cascade Line remains in service as part of the
shortline Wyoming Colorado Railroad, but the 120 mile majority of the line was abandoned eastward from Burns to Celatom in June 1992.[9] The remainder is still operated by the Wyoming Colorado Railroad as the Oregon Eastern Railroad.[10]
See also
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- Cascade Subdivision
- List of defunct California railroads
- List of defunct Oregon railroads
References
- ^ "Southern Pacific Railroad Natron Cutoff, Tunnel 3, Milepost 537.77, Odell Lake, Klamath County, OR". Library of Congress.
- ^ a b c John R. Signor, Rails in the shadow of Mt. Shasta, Howell-North Books, 1982, pp. 98-100, 110, 121
- ^ Caxton Printers, 1986, p. 107
- ^ a b Interstate Commerce Commission (1933), Valuation Docket No. 329: Oregon–Washington Railroad & Navigation Company, vol. 44 Val. Rep., p. 1
- ^ Interstate Commerce Commission (1933), Valuation Docket No. 1008: Central Pacific Railway Company, vol. 45 Val. Rep., p. 1
- ^ U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, 226 U.S. 470 (1913).
- ^ Guy L. Dunscomb, A Century of Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives, 1862-1962, 1963, pp. 395, 467
- ^ John T. Gaertner, North Bank Road: the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, Washington State University Press, 1991, p. 103
- ^ Union Pacific Railroad, Wyoming Colorado Railroad Company, Inc. WYCO #865, accessed July 2015
- ^ Wyoming Colorado Railroad Archived 2009-04-17 at the Wayback Machine, accessed August 2009
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