The following
railroad
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...
s operate in the
U.S. state
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of
Oregon
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Current railroads
Common freight carriers
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Albany and Eastern Railroad
The Albany and Eastern Railroad is a Shortline railroad, short line railroad in the Willamette Valley of Oregon that was created when the BNSF Railway spun off its Sweet Home Branch Line in May 1998. It operates about of track and is based in Le ...
(AERC)
**Operates the
Venell Farms Railroad Company
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BNSF Railway
BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroads in North America. One of seven North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 35,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and nearly 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that ...
(BNSF)
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Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad
The Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad is a Class II railroad operating between Northern California and Eugene, Oregon, United States. It was previously a mainline owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) between Eugene and Weed, California ...
(CORP)
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City of Prineville Railway
The City of Prineville Railway is an class III shortline railroad connecting the U.S. cities of Prineville, Oregon, Prineville and Redmond, Oregon, Redmond, Oregon. Trains can connect with the BNSF and UPRR at Prineville Jct. 3 miles north of R ...
(COP)
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Clackamas Valley Railway (CVLY)
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Coos Bay Rail Line (CBR)
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Goose Lake Railway LLC (GOOS)
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Idaho Northern and Pacific Railroad (INPR)
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Klamath Northern Railway
Klamath Northern Railway Company (KNOR) is a shortline railroad operating from Gilchrist, Oregon to Gilchrist Jct, Oregon where is connects with Union Pacific Railroad's Cascade Subdivision.
The line was constructed in 1938 by the Gilchrist Tim ...
(KNOR)
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Mount Hood Railroad
The Mount Hood Railroad is a heritage and shortline freight railroad located in Hood River, Oregon, east of Portland, Oregon, United States.
The majority of the railroad's revenue is generated from passenger excursions although a few small ...
(MH)
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Oregon Eastern Railroad (OERR)
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Oregon Pacific Railroad (OPR)
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Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad
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(PCC)
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Peninsula Terminal Company (PT)
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Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad
The Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad (POTB) was a shortline railroad in northwestern Oregon in the United States. Purchased from the Southern Pacific Transportation Company in 1990 by the Port of Tillamook Bay, the railroad was used to transport l ...
(POTB) (Out of Service)
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Portland and Western Railroad
The Portland and Western Railroad is a Class II railroad serving the U.S. state of Oregon, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of shortline and regional railroad holding company Genesee & Wyoming Inc. The PNWR includes a subsidiary, the Willamette ...
(PNWR)
**Operates the
Hampton Railway
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Places Australia
*Hampton bioregion, an IBRA biogeographic region in Western Australia
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*Hampton, New Brunswick
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(HLSC) and the
Willamette Pacific Railroad (WPRR)
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Portland Terminal Railroad (PTRC) (Operated by BNSF)
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Rogue Valley Terminal Railroad Corporation
The Rogue Valley Terminal Railroad is a shortline railroad that connects the industrial park in White City, Oregon, United States to the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad, which hauls its cars to the Union Pacific Railroad at Eugene, Oregon o ...
(RVT)
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Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...
(UP)
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Wallowa Union Railroad Authority
The Wallowa Union Railroad Authority is a short-line railroad owned by Wallowa County and Union County in the U.S. state of Oregon. It operates freight and tourist trains over a ex-Union Pacific Railroad line from the end of an Idaho Northern a ...
(WURR)
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Willamette Valley Railway
The Willamette Valley Railway (reporting marks WVR, WGR) is a short-line railroad that operates in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. It leased a line from Woodburn to Stayton from the Southern Pacific Transportation Company in February 1993, as w ...
(WVR)
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Oregon Independence railroad
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(OIRR)
Passenger carriers
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Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...
(AMTK)
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Astoria Riverfront Trolley
The Astoria Riverfront Trolley is a heritage streetcar line that operates in Astoria, Oregon, United States, using former freight railroad tracks along or near the south bank of the Columbia River, with no overhead line. The service began o ...
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Eagle Cap Excursion Train
The Eagle Cap Excursion Train is a heritage railroad service located in Wallowa, Oregon, United States, operated on a line from Elgin to Joseph. The line is owned by the Wallowa Union Railroad (WURR), a public entity, which acquired it from p ...
(WURR)
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MAX Light Rail
The Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) is a light rail system serving the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon. Owned and operated by TriMet, it consists of five color-designated lines that altogether connect the six sections ...
(TMTC)
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Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway
The Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway was an Oregon-based short line railroad that began near Eugene as the Oregon and Southeastern Railroad (O&SE) in 1904. O&SE's line ran along the Row River between the towns of Cottage Grove and Dissto ...
(OPE)
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Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad
The Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad (OCSR) is a heritage railroad, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, operating in Oregon, primarily between Garibaldi and Rockaway Beach, with additional special trips to Wheeler, Nehalem River and into the Salm ...
(OCSR)
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Sumpter Valley Railway
The Sumpter Valley Railway, or Sumpter Valley Railroad, is a narrow gauge heritage railroad located in Baker County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Built on a right-of-way used by the original railway of the same name, it carries excursion trains ...
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Washington Park and Zoo Railway
The Washington Park & Zoo Railway (WP&ZRy) is a narrow gaugeDrury, George (ed.) (1995). ''Guide to Tourist Railroads and Railroad Museums, 4th Edition'', p. 213. Waukesha (WI), US: Kalmbach. . recreational railroad in Portland, Oregon's W ...
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Westside Express Service
The Westside Express Service (WES) is a commuter rail line serving part of the Portland metropolitan area's Washington County and a small portion of Clackamas County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Owned by TriMet and operated by Portland & Weste ...
(TMTC)
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Willamette Shore Trolley
The Willamette Shore Trolley is a heritage railroad or heritage streetcar that operates along the west bank of the Willamette River between Portland and Lake Oswego in the U.S. state of Oregon. The right-of-way is owned by a group of local-are ...
*Oregon Pacific Railroad (OPR)
Private freight carriers
*SP Newsprint (
Newberg, Oregon
Newberg is a city in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States. Located in the Portland metropolitan area, the city is home to George Fox University. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 25,138 making it the second most populous city in the ...
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*Superior Lumber Company (
Glendale, Oregon
Glendale is a city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. The population was 874 at the 2010 census.
History
After construction of a railroad line south from Roseburg in 1881–83, Solomon Abraham, the local right-of-way agent, platted the ...
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Defunct railroads
Private freight carriers
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Bridal Veil Falls Lumbering Company
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Bridal Veil Lumbering Company
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Northwest Log and Lumber Company
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Black Diamond Coal Mining Company
The Black Diamond Coal Mining Company was formed in 1861, consolidating the Cumberland and Black Diamond coal mines in the region of Mount Diablo, in Contra Costa County, California.http://www.southport-land.com/PDFs/1861_06_15_1st_mtg_rev3.pdf M ...
(Southport Coal Mine Railroad, 1875-1885)
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Sunset Logging Company
Passenger carriers
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Samtrak
Electric
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Albany Street Railway
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Astoria Electric Company
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Astoria Street Railway
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Central Railway of Oregon
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City and Suburban Railway
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East Side Railway
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Eugene and Eastern Railway
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Forest Grove Transportation Company
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Medford Coast Railroad
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Mount Hood Railway and Power Company
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Mount Scott Railway
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Multnomah Street Railway
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Oregon City and Southern Railway
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Oregon Electric Railway
The Oregon Electric Railway (OE) was an interurban railroad line in the U.S. state of Oregon that linked Portland to Eugene. Service from Portland to Salem began in January 1908. The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway purchased the system in ...
(OE)
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Oregon Traction Company
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Oregon Water Power and Railway Company
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Pacific Power & Light Company
PacifiCorp is an electric power company in the western United States.
PacifiCorp has two business units:
# Pacific Power, a regulated electric utility with service territory throughout Oregon, northern California, and southeastern Washington.
# ...
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Portland Railroad and Terminal Division (PRTD)
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Portland Railway
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Portland Railway, Light and Power Company
The Portland Railway, Light and Power Company (PRL&P) was a railway company and electric power utility in Portland, Oregon, United States, from 1906 until 1924.Thompson, Richard M. (2006). ''Portland's Streetcars'', pp. 57 and 99. Arcadia Publish ...
(PRL&P)
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Portland City and Oregon Railway
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Portland Consolidated Railway
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Portland Consolidated Street Railway
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Portland Electric Power Company (PEP)
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Portland, Eugene and Eastern Railway
The Southern Pacific Red Electric Lines, also known simply as the Red Electric, was a network of interurban passenger train services operated by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Southern Pacific Railroad in the Willamette Valley of th ...
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Portland and Fairview Railway
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Portland Traction Company
The Portland Railway, Light and Power Company (PRL&P) was a railway company and electric power utility in Portland, Oregon, United States, from 1906 until 1924.Thompson, Richard M. (2006). ''Portland's Streetcars'', pp. 57 and 99. Arcadia Publish ...
(PRTD)
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Portland and Vancouver Railway
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Southern Oregon Traction Company
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Southern Pacific Company
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* Southern Airways Express, M ...
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Trans-continental Street Railway
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Union Street and Suburban Railway
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United Railways (URC)
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Valley Railway
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Walla Walla Valley Railway (WWV)
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Walla Walla Valley Traction Company
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Waverly–Woodstock Electric Railway
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Willamette Bridge Railway
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Willamette Falls Company
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Willamette Valley Railway
The Willamette Valley Railway (reporting marks WVR, WGR) is a short-line railroad that operates in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. It leased a line from Woodburn to Stayton from the Southern Pacific Transportation Company in February 1993, as w ...
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Willamette Valley Southern Railway
See also
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Lists of Oregon-related topics
These are lists of Oregon-related topics, attempting to list every list related to the state of Oregon
Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northe ...
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Rail transportation in Oregon
Rail transportation is an important element of the transportation network in the U.S. state of Oregon. Rail transportation has existed in Oregon in some form since 1855, and the state was a pioneer in development of electric railway systems. While ...
Notes
References
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*Association of American Railroads (2003), . Retrieved May 11, 2005.
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Oregon
Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...
Railroads
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in Track (rail transport), tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the ...