Oregon Electric Railway
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Oregon Electric Railway was an interurban railroad line that linked Portland, Oregon to Eugene, Oregon. Service from Portland to Salem, Oregon began in 1907. Jim Hill's Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway purchased the system in 1910, and extended service to Eugene in 1912. Regular passenger service along the Willamette Valley ended in June 30, 1933, though freight operations continued and the railway survived into the 1990s (ultimately as a Burlington Northern feeder). (Operation as an electric railroad ended July 10, 1945.)
BN operated the last freight train on this mainline on December 31, 1994, in preparation for the line's changeover to Tri-Met light rail usage.
External links
- Oregon Electrics (http://pdxhistory.com.tripod.com/gobystreetcar/orelectric/orelectric.html) section of Mark Moore's http://www.pdxhistory.com/ site
- Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society (http://www.oregonelectricrailway.com/)
References
- (May 1995), "Freight out, light rail in", Trains Magazine, p. 24.
- The Spokane, Portland and Seattle, by Charles and Dorothy Wood (Seattle, Washington: Superior Press), 1974
- Railroad Signatures across the Pacific Northwest, by Carlos A. Schwantes (Seattle, Washington: University of Seattle Press), 1993