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Oregon Pacific Railroad (1997)

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42: 639: 285:. This approximately 10-mile (16 km) route serves several shippers within Canby as well as in the small community of Liberal. However, several miles of track from Liberal into Molalla were abandoned after the loss of all shippers in the town. This operation was originally known as the Molalla Western Railway. 292:
As of 2012, the Oregon Pacific continues to operate its two railroads to provide freight service to its shippers. It also allows organizations or private individuals to charter a train, has operated trains featured in at least one movie and several television shows, and operates the popular Christmas
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Despite the loss of most business, there was still a handful of shippers that continued to reliably ship by train from an industrial park located in the northern part of Milwaukie along the Portland city boundary. Mr. Samuels purchased the approximately five miles of track from Portland to Milwaukie
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In 1996, both railroads were officially merged into the Oregon Pacific Railroad with the East Portland Traction Company becoming the East Portland Division and the Molalla Western Railway becoming the Molalla Branch Division.
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One of two locomotives purchased by the Portland Traction Company specifically for this route. Assigned to the East Portland Division. Only diesel locomotive preserved with trolley poles still intact.
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Purchased in 1989. As of 2001, the unit is out of service. Painted in "as-delivered" Southern Pacific paint scheme. As of 2020, the unit was sitting at the OPR shops in Milwaukee.
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railroads since the mid-1950s to handle the remaining freight business along the road. By the mid-1980s the remaining freight business east of
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was virtually gone as local land uses shifted from farming and industrial to housing. Some of the last shipments along the railroad were
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Stored out of service. One engine was removed and replaced with a hydraulic boom for lifting rails and ties from the right-of-way.
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Was sold to Western Rail in 2010 and purchased back in 2020. Currently inoperable and assigned to the Canby-Liberal Line.
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Dick Samuels, a local businessman owning a scrap steel business, purchased the rights to salvage the remnants of the
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Purchased in 2010; Assigned to the East Portland Division. 2nd locomotive officially named Eileen Williams Samuels.
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and formed the East Portland Traction Company to continue rail service to those customers. The customers included
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Also in 1993, the Oregon Pacific leased the Southern Pacific's Molalla Branch connecting
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In 1993, the East Portland Traction Company began running an excursion train known as
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neighborhood. The train itself was modest with a small General Electric
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was once an interurban railroad but had been owned 50/50 by the
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Rebuilt from an SW9. Assigned to the Canby-Liberal Line.
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Rebuilt from an SW8. Assigned to the Canby-Liberal Line.
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Currently being overhauled on the East Portland Line.
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Assigned to the Canby-Liberal line. Burned during the
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List of United States railroads by political division
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operating two disconnected routes: one in southeast
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For the much earlier railroad of the same name, see
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Molalla Western Railway
Oregon Pacific Railroad (1880–1894)
Oregon Pacific locomotive
EMD SW900
Portland, Oregon
Reporting mark
Oregon
United States
Track gauge
standard gauge
reporting mark
short-line railroad
Portland, Oregon
Southern Pacific
Canby
Liberal, Oregon
Portland Traction Company
Boring
Portland Terminal Railroad
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
Milwaukie
TriMet
branch line
Americold
Darigold
Oregon Liquor Control Commission
Samtrak
Amtrak
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

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