Cascade Subdivision
The Pengra Pass rail route, also known as the Natron Cutoff, the Cascade Subdivision, or the Cascade Line, is a Union Pacific Railroad line (originally a Southern Pacific Railroad line) connecting Eugene, Oregon, with Klamath Falls, Oregon. Construction of the line began in 1905 and was completed in the mid-1920s. Its name denotes a mountain pass on the Lane County– Klamath County boundary in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, about from Willamette Pass. The line heads southeast from Eugene, up the Cascades and over Pengra Pass, then southward beside U.S. Route 97 to Klamath Falls, where it splits in two, each track continuing into California. The route has at least 22 tunnels, several snow sheds and multiple bridges across canyons. The Pengra Pass route was built to provide trains running between Eugene and California with a cheaper and otherwise more practical option than to follow the older Siskiyou Pass route, which runs south from Eugene and over Siskiyou Pass to California. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Donner Pass
Donner Pass is a mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about west of Truckee, California. Like the Sierra Nevada themselves, the pass has a steep approach from the east and a gradual approach from the west. The pass has been used by the California Trail, First transcontinental railroad, Overland Route, Lincoln Highway and Victory Highway (both later U.S. Route 40 and still later Donner Pass Road), as well as indirectly by Interstate 80. The pass gets its name from the ill-fated Donner Party who overwintered there in 1846. Today the area is home to a thriving recreational community with several alpine lakes and ski resorts ( Donner Ski Ranch, Boreal, and Sugar Bowl). The permanent communities in the area include Kingvale and Soda Springs, as well as the larger community below the pass surrounding Donner Lake. History To reach California from the east, pioneers had to get their wagons over the Sierra Nevada mountain r ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Southern Pacific Railroad Lines
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Historic American Engineering Record In Oregon
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, as well as its usefulness to give perspective on the problems of the p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Historic American Engineering Record In California
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, as well as its usefulness to give perspective on the problems of the p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Historic American Engineering Record
Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) is a division of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) responsible for administering the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These programs were established to document historic places in the United States. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports, and are archived in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Historic American Buildings Survey In 1933, NPS established the Historic American Buildings Survey following a proposal by Charles E. Peterson, a young landscape architect in the agency. It was founded as a constructive make-work program for architects, draftsmen and photographers left jobless by the Great Depression. It was supported through the Historic Sites Act of 1935. Guided by field instructions from Washington, D.C., the first HABS recorders were tasked with docume ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pengra Bridge
The Pengra Bridge is a covered bridge near Jasper in the U.S. state of Oregon. The Howe truss A Howe truss is a truss bridge consisting of chords, verticals, and diagonals whose vertical members are in tension and whose diagonal members are in compression. The Howe truss was invented by William Howe in 1840, and was widely used as a bridg ... structure carries Place Road over Fall Creek in Lane County. It replaced an earlier bridge, built in 1904, that crossed the creek a few feet further upstream. Pengra Bridge was named in honor of Byron J. Pengra, a government surveyor. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979., at 17475 (March 18, 1980). The lower chord (truss construction), chords of the bridge, at by , are among the longest timbers ever used in an Oregon bridge. Timbers of this size simplified some aspects of construction but required special techniques to finish and position at the site. Other features of the bridge include ribbon wi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Oregon Eastern Railway
The Oregon Eastern Railway was a predecessor of the Southern Pacific Company that acquired or built most of the Natron Cutoff (a.k.a. Cascade Line) in northern California and southern Oregon, United States. It also made surveys and acquired right-of-way in eastern Oregon, which were subsequently sold to Union Pacific Railroad subsidiary Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company. The Natron Cutoff is on the National Register of Historic Places, considered significant to the period 1905 to 1945. The eastern line is now the similarly named Oregon Eastern Railroad History Starting in 1903, the Weed Lumber Company built a private railroad from the main line of the Southern Pacific Company (SP), formerly the Oregon and California Railroad, in Weed to Grass Lake, California. On July 6, 1905, the California Northeastern Railway was incorporated to operate the line as a common carrier. The new company bought the line on July 29, and an SP-funded reconstruction was completed on ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Tunnels Documented By The Historic American Engineering Record In Oregon
__NOTOC__ This is a list of tunnels documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in the US state of Oregon. Tunnels See also *List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Oregon References {{HAER list, structure=tunnel Historic American Engineering Record in Oregon, *List Oregon transportation-related lists, Tunnels Lists of buildings and structures in Oregon, Tunnels Lists of tunnels documented by the Historic American Engineering Record, Oregon ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Oregon Railroads
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Oregon. Current railroads Common freight carriers * Albany and Eastern Railroad (AERC) **Operates the Venell Farms Railroad Company * BNSF Railway (BNSF) * Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad (CORP) * City of Prineville Railway (COP) * Clackamas Valley Railway (CVLY) * Coos Bay Rail Line (CBR) * Goose Lake Railway LLC (GOOS) * Idaho Northern and Pacific Railroad (INPR) * Klamath Northern Railway (KNOR) * Mount Hood Railroad (MH) * Oregon Eastern Railroad (OERR) * Oregon Pacific Railroad (OPR) * Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad (PCC) * Peninsula Terminal Company (PT) * Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad (POTB) (Out of Service) * Portland and Western Railroad (PNWR) **Operates the Hampton Railway (HLSC) and the Willamette Pacific Railroad (WPRR) * Portland Terminal Railroad (PTRC) (Operated by BNSF) * Rogue Valley Terminal Railroad Corporation (RVT) * Union Pacific Railroad (UP) * Wallowa Union Railroad Authorit ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Mountain Passes In Oregon ...
There are at least 319 mountain passes in the U. S. state of Oregon. There are several words in use for a mountain pass in Oregon; the usage for each is: See also * Lists of Oregon-related topics References {{Lists of mountain passes by U.S. state * Oregon Mountain passes Mountain passes A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since many of the world's mountain ranges have presented formidable barriers to travel, passes have played a key role in trade, war, and both human and animal migrati ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Salt Creek (Middle Fork Willamette River)
Salt Creek is a tributary of the Middle Fork Willamette River in Lane County, Oregon, Lane County in the United States, U.S. state of Oregon. It is named for Brine spring, salt springs along its banks that are used as Mineral lick, licks by deer. The stream originates as an outflow of Lower Betty Lake in the forested Cascade Range just southeast of Waldo Lake. It proceeds generally south, through Gold Lake, to Oregon Route 58, Route 58, which it then follows mainly northwest for about to its mouth at the Middle Fork Willamette River just below Hills Creek Dam. At Salt Creek Falls—roughly west of Willamette Pass and a little more than upstream from the mouth—the stream plunges , discharging an average of of water per minute, or . Below the falls, the creek enters a narrow canyon shaped by glaciation and basaltic lava flows from higher in the Cascades. McCredie Hot Springs, at the former community of McCredie Springs, Oregon, McCredie Springs, are natural hot springs along th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |