Talk:Oregon and California Railroad/Archive 1

This article needs a discussion of the O&C RR lands, which were siezed & managed by the BLM due to the railroad's failure to obey its part of the arangement, & were managed from the 1920s on to benefit the school systems in numerous counties of Oregon. (Just another corporate scandal.) -- llywrch 23:36, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Rollback reason

Three sentences and one external link is still a stub. Slambo (Speak) 17:51, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Notes on early lines

1891 1895 1896 1900

• 366.61 Portland to California: Oregon Central Rail Road, East Portland to New Era
  • 96.52 Portland to Corvallis: Oregon Central Railroad, East Portland to St. Joseph; Western Oregon Railroad, St. Joseph to Corvallis
  • 11.50 Albany Junction to Lebanon: Albany and Lebanon Railroad
  • 92.96 Woodburn to Natron (to Coburg 79.8): Oregonian Railroad, Ray's Landing (opposite Dundee) to Coburg
  • 79.27 Portland to Airlie: Portland and Yamhill Railroad, Portland to Dundee; Oregonian Railroad, Dundee to Airlie
  • 7.18 Sheridan Junction to Sheridan: Oregonian Railroad

Only about 25 miles more (not Natron to Oakridge - that was Oregon Eastern Railway, later CP) were built by the O&C; other branches were built or absorbed by the Southern Pacific Company. (User:NE2/valuations/Oregon and California Rail Road, User:NE2/valuations/Southern Pacific Company, User:NE2/valuations/Central Pacific Railway)

--NE2 04:29, 15 September 2008 (UTC)