Backwoods Railroads Branchlines & Shortlines of Western Oregon by Burkhardt w/dj

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Backwoods Railroads Branchlines & Shortlines of Western Oregon by Burkhardt w/dj
Backwoods Railroads Branchlines & Shortlines of Western Oregon by D.C. Jesse Burkhardt
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket  Reflections from the lights on some photos
154 pages
Copyright 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE IX
INTRODUCTION XI
1. BACKWARD ALONG THE BAILEY BRANCH 1
SP's lower West Side Branch, Bailey Branch, and Wilkins Branch
2. MOUNTAIN BRANCHLINE 15
SP's Coos Bay Branch, with connecting shortline Longview, Portland & Northern Railway
3. EXPANSION FROM TILLAMOOK BAY37
Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad and SP's Tillamook Branch,
with BN connecting lines Vernonia Branch and Forest Grove Branch
4. HEAVY INDUSTRY AND TOURISM: TILLAMOOK'S FINE MIX 53
Oregon Coastline Express excursion trains and passenger car renovations
5. TRACKS INTO SANTIAM COUNTRY 65
BN's Santiam Branch and SP's Mill City Branch
6. 116-MILE LOCAL 77
SP's Toledo Branch
7. NORTH WILLAMETTE SHORTLINES 89
Willamette Valley Railroad and the Willamina & Grand Ronde Railway, with SP connecting lines Willamina Branch, West Side Branch, Dallas Branch, West Side-Seghers Branch, and Newberg Branch
S. SEMAPHORES AND TIMBER  111
SP's Siskiyou Line and White City Branch, with shortline connections Yreka Western Railroad, WCTU Railway, and Oregon, Pacific & Eastern Railway
9. No SOOT, NO CINDERS  125
BN's Oregon Electric Branch and Astoria Branch
EPILOGUE: UPDATES, SUMMER 1993  139
SP and the Willamette & Pacific Railroad, Molalla Western Railway, Willamette Valley Railroad, and Willamina & Grand Ronde Railway; BN's Oregon Electric; Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad; SP's Coos Bay Branch; and the "Pacific Northwest High Speed Rail Corridor"
BIBLIOGRAPHY 147
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS  149
INDEX  150
DUST COVER INTRODUCTION
In the 1990s, a freight train rolling over a middle-of-nowhere feeder track on its way to or from a rural railroad town is almost an anachronism. These lines often host only one train a day or two trains a week. The branches and shortlines are evolving. Routes are drying up, being taken out of service, sold or leased to new owners. Many routes are endangered, and once gone will be gone forever-
Throughout Oregon, the names of "outback" railroad stations read as if they belong in an atlas of obscure places: Tolo. Mountain Fir. Ashahr. Minto. Siltcoos.
Canary. Narrows. Suver. Dry Creek. Timber. All that links these places is a network of remote rail lines. And as obscure as these locations are, they would be even more obscure without the railroads-if they existed at all. Many towns in Oregon can trace their beginnings to the whims of railroad presidents and their surveyors . . . generations ago.
-D. C. Jesse Burkhardt
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