Description: Eastern Oregon Shortline Railroads is about the development of shortline railroads in eastern Oregon. The completion of eastern Oregon’s mainline railroad network, including their branch lines, provided a transportation framework for the region. To reach some of the newly discovered mineral reserves and the remotely located agricultural areas, several shortlines were built. The definition of a shortline in 1991 as defined by the Surface Transportation Board 1991 is a railroad with less than 350 miles of track and total earnings of less than $20 million dollars. As explained in Eastern Oregon Shortline Railroads, most of Oregon east of the Cascade Mountains, is a raw and inhospitable land, largely the product of recent volcanic activity. Railroad builders constructed the mainlines skirting the edges of the region and some branch lines into agricultural communities, but found very little else to attract their interest. Many of these shortline railroads in eastern Oregon had a strong interdependent relationship with the timber industry. Since most of the sawmills were located on the main line railroads, the shortline railroad played an important part in transporting the raw materials to the mills and the equipment and manpower to the forest of the Blue, Ochoco and Wallowa mountains. Over time, however, a small collection of interesting shortline railroads built or bought existing 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. Eastern Oregon Shortline Railroads 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. Eastern Oregon Shortline Railroads is a wonderful book about the short lines of eastern Oregon.
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Book Title: Eastern Oregon Shortline Railroads
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Item Length: 9.2in.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Publication Year: 2016
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 0.3in.
Author: Jeff Moore
Genre: History, Transportation
Topic: Railroads / History, Railroads / Pictorial, United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (Or, WA), United States / West / Pacific (Ak, CA, Hi, Or, WA)
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 6.5in.
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
