Railway Palaces of Portland, Oregon
Railway Palaces of Portland, Oregon

Author: Alexander Benjamin Craghead

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016-10-24

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1625847947

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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.

Oregon & Northwestern Railroad
Oregon & Northwestern Railroad

Author: Jeff Moore

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-11-04

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1439644241

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In 1922, the US Forest Service offered one of the largest timber sales in the agencys 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.

Southern Pacific in California
Southern Pacific in California

Author: Kerry Sullivan

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738582078

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The Southern Pacific Railroad is California's railroad. As the Central Pacific, it bored and blasted its way east from Sacramento, across the towering High Sierra, meeting with the Union Pacific at Promontory, Utah, completing the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, and profoundly changing the growing United States. By the early 20th century, the Southern Pacific was a rail colossus, stretching from San Francisco Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. Yet the Southern Pacific remained essentially Californian. Its rail lines gave muscle to the lovely California coast, the fertile San Joaquin and Imperial Valleys, and the timber industry of the north coast. Yet for all its might and majesty, for many Californians the Southern Pacific was a smaller, more intimate part of the fabric of their daily lives.

Willamette Valley Railways
Willamette Valley Railways

Author: Richard Thompson

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738556017

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Willamette Valley Railways tells the story of the electric interurban railways that ran through Oregon's Willamette Valley and of the streetcars that operated in the towns they served. Long before modern light rail vehicles, electric trains were providing Portland and the Willamette Valley with reliable, elegant transportation that was second to none. Between 1908 and 1915, two large systems, the Oregon Electric Railway and the Southern Pacific Red Electrics, joined smaller competitors constructing railways throughout the region. Portland became the hub of an impressive interurban network in a frenzy of electric railway building. Yet all too soon, this brief but glorious interurban era was over. Highway improvement and the growth of automobile ownership made electric passenger trains unprofitable in the sparsely populated valley. By the early 1930s, the company that had launched the nation's first true interurban was the only one still offering passenger service here.

Nothing Like It In the World
Nothing Like It In the World

Author: Stephen E. Ambrose

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001-11-06

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780743203173

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The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

Orphan Road
Orphan Road

Author: Kurt E. Armbruster

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781636821221

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"Seattle residents were bitterly disappointed in 1873 when the Northern Pacific selected rival Tacoma as the future Puget Sound terminus for Washington Territory's first transcontinental railroad. This book depicts the growth of railways across the Puget Sound region, including Tacoma's frantic quest for a saltwater terminal of their own, descriptions of individual lines, and the colorful personalities and urban aspirations that eventually brought Seattle to the forefront of Washington commerce"--Provided by publisher.

Eastern Oregon Shortline Railroads
Eastern Oregon Shortline Railroads

Author: Jeff Moore

Publisher: America Through Time

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781634990103

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Most of Oregon east of the Cascade Mountains is a raw and inhospitable land, largely the product of recent volcanic activity. Railroad builders constructed a couple mainlines skirting the edges of the region and some branch lines into agricultural communities, but found very little else to attract their interest. Over time, however, a small collection of interesting shortline railroads built or bought rail lines, either in conjunction with the developing timber industry in the Blue, Ochoco, and Wallowa mountains or to connect a few existing communities with the mainline that bypassed the town. This book tells the stories of these small railroads and the roles they played in the development and economies of the region; covered railroads includes the Big Creek & Telocaset; City of Prineville; Condon, Kinzua & Southern; Idaho, Northern & Pacific; Klamath Northern; Oregon & Northwestern; Oregon, California & Eastern; Oregon Eastern Division of the Wyoming/Colorado; Sumpter Valley; Union Railroad of Oregon; Wallowa Union; and others.

North Bank Road
North Bank Road

Author: John T. Gaertner

Publisher: Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13:

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A detailed history of one of J.J. Hill's enterprises--the line into the lucrative Willamette Valley (Portland and points south) where he could duke it out with Harriman's Southern Pacific. Many photos and charts. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Empire of Dreams
Empire of Dreams

Author: Scott Gavin

Publisher:

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9781937493882

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Author Scott Gavin has spent more than 30 years researching this fascinating and compelling story of Oregon's Most Controversial Railroad. Suffering the belittlement of Portland press, a constant struggle to raise capital, bad weather, a national economic downturn, a negatively influenced legislature, no Federal Grants, and yes, some mismanagement of funds, Col. T. E. Hogg and his companies attempted to cross the state of Oregon from West to East. This to relieve shippers from the inflated costs of moving wheat and other products to market and passengers to the coast. With 400 pages, 37 chapters, more than 280 photo's and maps, locomotive and station rosters, and reprints of newspaper articles, this softbound book is a must for railfans, historians and all readers interested in the early ways of men and machines of the Oregon Pacific Railroad.