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Northwest Railroad Depots

 

This page features railroad depots in the Pacific Northwest. These are only a few of the many depots in Oregon and Washington. Some are still active train stations, some are preserved as museums and some are closed or used for other functions. This page includes links to historical photos and information from the Oregon State Library, the Oregon Historical Society, the Washington State Historical Society, the University of Washington Library, the Salem Public Library, Multnomah County Genweb, HistoryLink.org, RailPictures.Net, RRPictureArchives.net, shastaroute.railfan.net, The Friends of SP 4449, Tom Robinson's HistoricPhotoArchive.com, E. O. Gibson's WX4, and the Washington State Railroads Historical Society.

 

Oregon

 

Albany

 

 

 

The Albany depot was completed in 1909 for the Southern Pacific Railroad, replacing a previous depot, and has remained in continuous operation. It is currently served by Amtrak's Coast Starlight and Cascades trains. An $11.5 million renovation project began in May of 2004 and the depot was dedicated in April of 2006.

 

Historical Photos:

Train at old Albany depot, 1895 (Salem Public Library)

Train at old Albany depot, 1900 (Salem Public Library)

Horsecar at new Albany depot, under construction, 1908 (Salem Public Library)

 

The clock tower was constructed in December 2006 and January 2007 at a cost of $140,000. It is 60 feet tall and the base is 6 feet square. The 4-foot-diameter clocks were donated by the Greater Albany Rotary Club. The "ALBANY" letters are 2 feet tall. The tower has a steel frame with a masonry veneer, including about 2,500 ornamental, sand-colored bricks.

 

 

 

The adjacent 1,500-square-foot Railway Express Agency building on the east end of the depot is currently vacant and was last used as offices and a dispatch center for the Union Pacific Railroad. It is to be restored and renovated to serve as the offices for the Albany Transit System.

 

 

   

 

 

Astoria

 

The Astoria & Columbia River Railroad was completed to Astoria on April 4, 1898, with the first train on May 16. The Spokane, Portland & Seattle took over February 24, 1911. This depot was built in 1924, which incidentally turned out to be the peak year for rail travel in Astoria. Passenger service to Astoria ended in 1952, but the depot was used by the railroad for other purposes for many years. Eventually even the freight rail traffic disappeared, and the SP&S's successor Burlington Northern donated the depot to the Columbia River Maritime Museum. Today, the museum uses the depot for storage.

 

 

The tracks to the depot are now owned by the Portland & Western Railroad, though there is no freight rail business in Astoria and except for the Lewis & Clark Explorer during the summers of 2003 to 2005, no trains have come this far in a long time. Though the Lewis & Clark Explorer stopped in front of the depot, the building itself has remained closed, and is in need of serious repair. The tracks through Astoria are now owned by the city, and are used for the Astoria Riverfront Trolley, which stops near the depot.

 

Brooks

 

The historic Brooks railroad depot was originally built by the Southern Pacific Railroad in downtown Brooks. It was moved to Antique Powerland in 1986 and is now the home of the Brooks Historical Society's museum; it is being maintained in its original condition and is full of historical artifacts.

 

Canby

 

The Canby depot was originally built in 1873 by the Oregon & California Railroad and was originally located at North First and Grant Streets. It is the oldest railroad depot in Oregon. The railroad was taken over by the Southern Pacific in 1887. Additions were made to the depot in 1891 and 1907. The depot closed on August 4, 1976, and in 1978 the Southern Pacific Railroad offered the building to the people of Canby with the provision that it be moved off railroad property. The building was moved to its current location on August 4, 1983 and the 1907 addition was removed so its materials could be used to restore the rest of the building. The Canby Depot Museum opened on October 6, 1984. It is home to the Canby Historical Society. Several other railroad artifacts are here as well including signals, a speeder shed and a caboose.

 

 

 

Related Links:

Canby Depot Museum History

Canby Depot, July 4, 1974 from E. O. Gibson's WX4

 

The Dalles

 

The City Transportation Center in The Dalles hasn't served trains since Amtrak's Pioneer was discontinued in 1997 and it now only serves buses. I'm not sure if it's an historic depot that was moved from its original location and renovated or if it's a newer building designed to look like an old depot.

 

Hood River

 

The Hood River depot was built in 1911 for use by the Oregon-Washington Railway & Navigation Company, a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railroad. It replaced a Queen Anne style depot that was built in 1882. When new, the 1911 depot's amenities included a women's restroom, a men's smoking room and a large enough waiting room for 120 people. The depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Today the depot serves as the headquarters for the Mount Hood Railroad and accommodates the passengers of the railroad's tourist trains.

 

 

Lebanon

 

Santiam Travel Station in Lebanon, OregonThe Santiam Travel Station is the former Southern Pacific Railroad depot in Lebanon. The Albany-Lebanon Railroad was completed in September 1880, and a depot was built north of Sherman Street. In October 1880, the railroad was taken over by the Oregon & California Railroad. On May 12, 1887, the Southern Pacific Railroad took over the Oregon & California Railroad. This Santiam Travel Station in Lebanon, Oregonnew depot was built in 1908, to Southern Pacific’s design number 23.

 

 In 1984, the Southern Pacific depot in Lebanon closed. It had been many, many years since passenger trains had served Lebanon, but the depot had still served as an office for an agent to handle freight business. In March of 1993, the Willamette Valley Railway Santiam Travel Station in Lebanon, Oregonleased the line from Albany to Mill City from the Southern Pacific (now Union Pacific), and in May of 1998, the line to Sweet Home was purchased from BNSF. The railroad has operated as the Albany & Eastern Railroad since 2000.

 

The Lebanon depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on Santiam Travel Station in Lebanon, OregonJune 13, 1997. It is one of two Southern Pacific No. 23 depots in Oregon remaining in its original location. It was renovated into the Santiam Travel Station and was dedicated on October 22, 2003. It is now cared for by the Lebanon City Parks Department, and is used as a council chambers and community center.

 

Oregon City

 

Southern Pacific Freight Depot in Oregon CityThis building was the Southern Pacific Railroad's freight depot in Oregon City. It is not in its original location and may have been moved out of Oregon City at some point and brought back. It has been in its current location since at least the mid-1990s. It is currently used as an office building and is known as "The Depot," housing Bill R. McCracken Accounting and Tax Service, Applied Handing NW, Inc., and Farmers Insurance. It was scheduled to be moved in 2007 to be used as Oregon City's Amtrak depot, but this has yet to happen.

 

Oregon City's original passenger depot was located downtown, right next to the municipal elevator. The depot was owned and operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad. The passenger trains of the Southern Pacific ceased stopping in Oregon City in 1954, though they would continue to pass through, even after being turned over to Amtrak in 1971. The unused passenger depot disappeared, and no trace of it remains today. Even the Southern Pacific itself disappeared into the Union Pacific Railroad in 1996.

 

Amtrak Depot in Oregon CityThe city of Oregon City wanted passenger trains to stop there again, and so the city built a new passenger platform across Washington Street from the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. On Friday, April 16, 2004, the new station platform was dedicated and Amtrak's Cascades trains began stopping in Oregon City. A plaque at the depot features a 2005 depiction of an Amtrak Cascades train at the Oregon City station by Darla S. Cole. According to the plaque, the platform was dedicated in honor of John F. Williams, Jr., who was mayor of Oregon City from 1999 to 2002. The project was conceived during his administration and completed during the administration of Alice Norris. The station was designed by David Evans and Associates and built by Bill Erickson Construction. The plaque also includes the names of City Commissioners Edward Allick, Bob Bailey, Derrick Beneville, Gary Hewitt, Dan Holladay, Tom Lemons, Jack Lynch, and Doug Neeley, Members of the Urban Renewal Commission Bill Packus (Chair), Andy Busch, Debra Jones and Wende Sanchez, City Managers Brian Nakamura and Larry Patterson and Public Works Director/City Engineer Nancy Kraushaar.

 

Portland

 

Portland Union Station was conceived in the mid-1880s by Henry Villard, president of the Northern Pacific Railway when it reached Portland in 1883. An early design would have been the largest railroad station in the world. This more modest Richardsonian Romanesque proposal was designed by the Boston/Kansas City architectural firm of Van Brunt & Howe. The station was built by the Northern Pacific Terminal Co., beginning in 1890. It opened as Grand Central Station on February 14, 1896. As other railroads started using it, it became known as Union Station. In the 1920s, the depot served five railroads and over 120 arrivals and departures a day.

 

The 150-foot tower's Seth Thomas clock, made in Thomaston, Connecticut in 1895, features 14 foot diameter opalescent glass faces with bronze hands, a 14 foot pendulum and 1,000 pounds of counterweight that drops almost 50 feet over 7 days. The neon "UNION STATION GO BY TRAIN" signs, added in 1948 & turned off in 1971; were restored in 1985 by the efforts Rich Carlson.

 

Historical Photos:

Early Photo of Union Station (HistoricPhotoArchive.com)

Union Station (Oregon Historical Society)

Postcard View of Union Station, circa 1910 (University of Washington Library)

Postcard View of Union Station (shastaroute.railfan.net/)

Postcard View of Union Station (shastaroute.railfan.net/)

Postcard View of Union Station (shastaroute.railfan.net/)

Postcard View of Union Station (Multnomah County Genweb)

Postcard View of Union Station (shastaroute.railfan.net/)

Postcard View of Union Station (Multnomah County Genweb)

Postcard View of Union Station (shastaroute.railfan.net/)

Postcard View of Union Station (Multnomah County Genweb)

Postcard View of Union Station (shastaroute.railfan.net/)

Postcard View of Union Station (Multnomah County Genweb)

Postcard View of Union Station (shastaroute.railfan.net/)

Postcard View of Union Station (shastaroute.railfan.net/)

Aerial View showing Union Station, March 4, 1959 (HistoricPhotoArchive.net)

Union Station, June 27, 1962 (Salem Public Library)

Freight Train at Union Station, June 3, 1971 (RailPictures.Net)

Southern Pacific Daylight steam engine #4449 at Union Station in 1984 (Friends of SP 4449)

Southern Pacific Daylight steam engine #4449 at Union Station, April 28, 1991 (RailPictures.Net)

Southern Pacific freight train at Union Station, June 20, 1993 (RRPictureArchives.net)

 

Union Station was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Union Station is the oldest major railroad passenger terminal on the West Coast and is one of the oldest continuously operating railroad passenger stations in the United States. It has been owned by the Portland Development Commission since 1987.

 

Though passenger train service has decreased dramatically since Union Station's heyday, there are still a number of trains arriving and departing from Union Station throughout the day. Union Station is served by Amtrak's Coast Starlight, Empire Builder and Cascades service.

 

The main concourse was renovated in the 1930s by Pietro Belluschi. The walls and floor are covered with travertine marble, giving the waiting area an Art Deco look. The south wing retains more of the station's original Victorian Renaissance Revival architecture.

 

Historical Photo:

Postcard view of the Union Station News Stand (now the Ticket Counter) (shastaroute.railfan.net/)

 

Part of the 1930s renovation of the waiting room included a built-in clock in the wall at each end. The clock above the ticket counter at the west end is no longer functional and has lost its hands, but the one above the doors to the platform still tells the time.

 

The main waiting room features neon directional signs that may have been installed when the interior was renovated, but more likely were added in 1948 with the neon signs on the clock tower. The sign for Amtrak's Metropolitan Lounge for sleeping car passengers is a more recent addition.

 

The shelters over the passenger platforms were built in 1904. They were saved from demolition in 1990.

 

 

 

 

St. Helens

 

The St. Helens depot was built in 1923 by the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway. There was no passenger service on the Astoria line after 1956, but the depot was still used by the railroad as a base of operation for train and maintenance crews for decades. The depot was donated to the city of St. Helens in the 1990s, and was renovated into the city's Chamber of Commerce in 2000. The St. Helens and Astoria depots are the only two depots remaining on the Astoria line.

 

 

 

Salem

 

The Oregon & California Railroad was the first railroad built south from Portland toward California. It reached Salem on September 27, 1870, and opened a depot here later that year. Salem's residents of the time complained that the depot was too far from town.

 

A large crowd gathered at the Salem depot in August 1899 to welcome home Oregon’s 2nd Volunteers from the Spanish-American War.

Salem's first railroad depot was destroyed in a fire in 1885. Soon after, a new depot was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad, which took over the Oregon & California in 1887. When it first opened, it consisted of a two-story passenger-section only, but a single-story freight section was soon added on the south end. (Note: the photo at left is of a 1:64 scale model of the old Salem depot on the Oregon State Capitol Holidays Layout.)

 

In 1917, the passenger section of Salem's depot was destroyed by another fire. The fire was put out before it caused significant damage to the freight section, which was saved and repaired as a stand-alone freight depot. This 1800's freight depot still stands today as the oldest freight depot in the state of Oregon, and it retains many of its original architectural details. It has recently received a new roof (donated by Withers Lumber, Larry Epping Building Co., Fidelity National Title, Associated Properties Real Estate Sales & Service, Portland General Electric, JDC Homes, LLC, Washington Federal Savings, Freres Lumber Company, Inc. and the Marion-Polk Building Industry Association) and is wrapped in Typar plastic until funds for a complete restoration can be raised.

 

Historical Photos:

Old Depot (Salem Public Library)

Old Depot, 1889-1890 (Salem Public Library)

Train at Old Depot, 1889-1900 (Salem Public Library)

Old Depot, 1899 (Salem Public Library)

Old Depot, 1890-1910 (Salem Public Library)

Old Depot (Salem Public Library)

Old Depot (Salem Public Library)

Old Depot, 1908 (Salem Public Library)

Train at Old Depot, circa 1911 (Oregon State Library)

Old Depot, 1913 (Salem Public Library)

Old Depot, 1915 (Salem Public Library)

Train at Salem Depot with Oregon National Guard soldiers for Mexico, 1916 (Oregon State Library)

 

In 1918, the Southern Pacific Railroad built a new passenger depot in Salem. The depot was designed by J. H. Christie, an architect for the Southern Pacific Railroad, and was built by Stebinger Brothers of Portland at a cost of $25,000. The depot featured Beaux Arts Classical architecture with Ionic columns and large Roman arched windows and a 1500 square foot passenger waiting room with a 24-foot ceiling, two 30-inch globe light fixtures, marble wainscoting and and Terrazzo marble floors.

 

By the 1950s, the depot had been "modernized," with a low suspended ceiling in the waiting room, and the large arched windows blanked over. As passenger rail service declined from the 1960s onward, maintenance was kept to a minimum and the building deteriorated. The Oregon Department of Transportation took possession of the depot property in the 1990s. In 1998, a three-phase restoration project began that took nearly two years, restoring the interior's  arched windows, high ceilings and marble floors, recreating the original light fixtures, and building a new brass and black marble ticket counter. A new roof, HVAC, plumbing and electrical systems, paving and landscaping were also part of the project. The restored depot was rededicated on May 19, 2000. Amtrak leases the depot from the Oregon Department of Transportation for $1 a year, and is also responsible for cleaning and maintenance. The depot is served daily by Amtrak's Coast Starlight and Cascades service.

 

Related Links:

Salem's Railroad Depots at Salem Online History

Salem's Passenger Rail Station at Salem Online History

Salem Railroad Station at Salem Online History

 

Historical Photos:

Depot and Freight Depot in 1929 (Salem Public Library)

Depot, 1940s-1950s (Salem Public Library)

President Eisenhower & Governor McKay on train at depot, October 7, 1952 (Salem Public Library)

Depot in 1960 (Salem Public Library)

Depot, Unknown Date (Salem Public Library)

Depot, 1977 (Salem Public Library)

 

Troutdale

 

Troutdale's first depot was built in 1882 by the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company. It was a two-story depot with living quarters upstairs for the agent and his family. The original depot burned in 1907 and this depot was built to replace it. It was originally on the north side of the tracks about two blocks from its current location. Passenger service in Troutdale ended in 1965. In 1976 the Union Pacific Railroad sold the building to Troutdale for $1. The depot was moved in March of 1976. It is maintained by the Troutdale Historical Society.

 

Related Links:

Troutdale Depot Rail Museum Gallery

 

Washington

 

Bingen

 

The Bingen Amtrak depot, officially called Bingen-White Salmon, is in a corner of this BNSF maintenance building. The Amtrak depot reportedly opened in 1992. I don't know if that is when this building was built, or just when the Amtrak depot moved in. There are no services or Amtrak staff at the depot; just a waiting room.

 

Historically, the depot in Bingen was called White Salmon, due to the other nearby town's prominence and better-known name. This did not sit well with the people of Bingen, and in 1930 the depot was renamed Bingen-White Salmon.

 

Historical Photos:

White Salmon Depot, 1912 (Washington State Railroads Historical Society)

 

Centralia

 

Centralia, Washington depot signage. The Centralia, Washington depot. Original exterior details of the restored Centralia, Washington depot. Restored Interior of the Centralia, Washington depot. Restored Interior of the Centralia, Washington depot.

 

The Centralia Union Depot at 210 Railroad Avenue was built by the Northern Pacific Railway in 1912. This brick depot was the Northern Pacific's third Centralia depot, following wood depots built in 1880 and 1905. An extensive restoration between 1996 and 2002 has resulted in this beautiful stop for Amtrak's Cascades and Coast Starlight.

 

Historical Photos:

Old Centralia Depot, 1905 (Washington State Railroads Historical Society)

Centralia Depot, unknown date (Washington State Railroads Historical Society)

 

Chehalis

 

Chehalis-Centralia Railroad's Chehalis Depot (formerly Milwaukee Road) under renovationChehalis-Centralia Railroad's Chehalis Depot (formerly Milwaukee Road) under renovationThe Chehalis-Centralia Railroad Association is in the process of restoring the Milwaukee Road's Chehalis train order station. The depot had been vacant since 1980 until 1995 when it was donated to the CCRA and moved here. When completed it will serve as the depot, ticket office and gift shop for the tourist train.

 

Kelso

 

Kelso Station from the west side of the Cowlitz RiverRail service first came to Kelso in 1872, when the Northern Pacific Railway built north from a river connection at Kalama, Washington toward Seattle. This brick depot opened on February 12, 1912, replacing an earlier wood-frame depot built in the 1800s. By the early 1990s, the depot was locked up. Amtrak trains still stopped at the station, but there were no personnel at the station and passengers had to wait outside. Tickets had to be purchased in advance, either from a travel agent, or from another station with Amtrak personnel.

 

Street side of Kelso StationClock Tower at Kelso StationIn September 1994, after years of neglect, a major renovation and restoration of the depot was started to turn the depot into a multimodal transportation hub for Cowlitz County. The renovation included the addition of a clock tower and putting a full basement under the depot, which had never had one before, to be used for retail space. The renovation was completed and the depot was dedicated as the "Kelso Intermodal Facility" at 2:30 PM on September 23, 1995. Since then, the depot has become a Greyhound bus station in accordance with the multimodal plans, but the basement has never had a tenant and while Amtrak trains continue to stop here, no Amtrak personnel are assigned to the station. For a time it was possible to buy a Greyhound ticket but not an Amtrak ticket, but an automated Amtrak ticket machine has since been installed. NOTE: The clock tower does not have a permanent pointed spire on top of it; in the photos that shows it, it is a temporary holiday decoration (though I think it makes the clock tower look better).

 

The renderings below were used for the invitations to the Grand Opening of the Kelso Intermodal Facility and the "Keeping Kids on Track" festival on Saturday, September 23, 1995. There are a number of differences between these renderings and the finished project, including the covered platform and the design of the clock tower and its base.

 

Historical Photos:

Kelso Depot, 1920s (Washington State Railroads Historical Society)

Passenger Train at Kelso Depot, August 21, 1972 (RRPictureArchives.net)

Freight Train at Kelso Depot, August 22, 1972 (RRPictureArchives.net)

 

Vancouver

 

The Vancouver depot sits at the end of the 1908 drawbridge over the Columbia River, in one corner of a "wye" arrangement of track forming the junction between the north-south line between Portland and Seattle and the east-west line down the north side of the Columbia River Gorge leading to Spokane and points east, putting tracks on both sides of the depot. The depot was built at about the same time as the bridge and originally served the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railways. The Union Pacific began serving the depot as well in 1910. Today, the depot serves Amtrak passengers, with the Cascades and Coast Starlight stopping on the west side of the station and the Empire Builder stopping on the east side. The interior of the Vancouver depot was renovated in late 2008 and the depot reopened in mid-January, 2009 with a more open floor plan resulting in a much larger waiting room.

 

 

Related Links:

Train carries James J. Hill across the new Columbia River Railroad Bridge from Portland to Vancouver on November 5, 1908 (HistoryLink.org)

Railroading in Vancouver & Southwest Washington (HistoryLink.org)

 

Historical Photos:

Postcard View of Vancouver Depot, circa 1914 (Washington State Railroads Historical Society)

Postcard View of Vancouver Depot, circa 1915 (Washington State Historical Society)

Vancouver Depot, August 22, 1972 (rrpicturearchives.net)

Vancouver Depot, September 20, 1994 (shastaroute.railfan.net/)

 

Wishram

 

Wishram's Amtrak depot is in this BNSF maintenance building. Wishram was once named Fallbridge but was renamed to honor a local Native American tribe. The town was an important crew change point for the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, located halfway between Vancouver and Pasco, and to this day this section of the railroad is called the Fallbridge Subdivision.

 

Historical Photos:

Fallbridge Depot, 1925 (Washington State Railroads Historical Society)

 

On the east side of the Wishram depot is a monument to the pioneers of the Pacific Northwest, who are listed on a plaque which reads as follows:

 

TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE

DAUNTLESS PATHFINDERS AND

PIONEERS WHO FOLLOWED THE

GREAT THOROUGHFARE OF

THE COLUMBIA AT THIS PLACE.

-

AMONG THEM WERE

 

Meriwether Lewis

William Clark

David Thompson

David Stuart

Robert Stuart

Donald McKenzie

Robert McLelen

Donald McLennon

John Reed

Wilson Price Hunt

Ramsay Crooks

Alexander Ross

Gabriel Franchere

Ross Cox

Alexander Henry

Peter Skene Ogden

John McLoughlin

George Simpson

Jedediah S. Smith

David Douglas

Nathaniel Wyeth

Jason and Daniel Lee

Cyrus Shepard

P. L. Edwards

Thomas Nuttall

John K. Townsend

Samuel Parker

Pierre J. De Smet

Marcus Whitman

Narcissa Whitman

Henry H. Spaulding

Eliza Spaulding

William H. Gray

Francis N. Blanchet

Modeste Demers

Robert Newell

Joseph L. Meek

Elijah White

Jesse Applegate

Peter H. Burnett

James W. Nesmith

John C. Fremont

 

 

Also near the depot is a small park housing former Great Northern Railway steam locomotive #2507. This locomotive was one of 28 Class P-2 4-8-2 Mountain-type locomotives delivered to Great Northern by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. They were originally assigned to passenger service and were the initial power for the Empire Builder when it was inaugurated in June, 1929, but were replaced in Empire Builder service in 1930 by 14 new Baldwin Class S-2 4-8-4 Northern-type locomotives that pulled the Empire Builder until it was streamlined and dieselized in 1947. The Class P-2 Mountains were then assigned to freight service until their retirement in 1955.

 

 

After its retirement, #2507 was put into storage in Minnesota instead of being immediately scrapped. Meanwhile, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle promised a steam locomotive to Klickitat County for display at Maryhill, only to end up having no steam locomotives left; #700 had been given to the city of Portland, #539 to the city of Vancouver, and the rest sold for scrap. To save face, the SP&S purchased #2507 from parent Great Northern, repainted it with SP&S lettering, and donated it to Klickitat County in 1962.

 

 

For 30 years, #2507 sat on display in Maryhill in SP&S paint. An attempted restoration saw #2507 painted back to GN in 1992, and in 1994 it was moved from Maryhill to Pasco to be restored to operation. No restoration ever occurred however, and eventually Klickitat County decided to put the locomotive back on permanent display. Track realignments had made a return to Maryhill impractical, so a new site in Wishram was chosen. The locomotive was given a complete cosmetic restoration and a structure was built to protect the locomotive from the elements. BNSF donated the locomotive's move from Pasco to Wishram, and it was dedicated at its now home on October 10, 2003. The locomotive is displayed with its original plaque from Maryhill and a new display with a brief operational history and technical details, but no mention is made that the locomotive was in Maryhill, or of why a Great Northern locomotive is displayed along the tracks of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle.

 

Below are the specifications listed on the new display and the test of the original plaque.

 

SPECIFICATIONS

Wheel Arrangement 4-8-2
Length 102'-7/8"
Drivers 73" diameter
Weight on Drivers 242,000 lbs.
Locomotive Weight 365,600 lbs.
Locomotive & Tender Weight 617,000 lbs
Cylinders (diameter x stroke) (2) 29" x 28"
Boiler Pressure 210 psi
Tractive Effort 57,580 lbs
Tender Water Capacity 15,000 gallons
Tender Fuel Oil Capacity 5,606 gallons

THIS BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE

NO. 2507 WAS PRESENTED TO

KLICKITAT COUNTY IN 1962 BY

THE SPOKANE, PORTLAND AND

SEATTLE RAILWAY COMPANY AS

A LASTING MEMORIAL TO THE

DAYS OF STEAM LOCOMOTIVES AND

THE MEN WHO OPERATED THEM.


Related Links:

Railroad Station Historical Society

Great American Stations

Old Depot Photos from the Washington State Railroads Historical Society

USA Rail Guide

 

Also See:

TriMet Westside Express Service

Oregon Wig-Wags

ORHF Holiday Express 2008

Amtrak's Pinch Hitters

Lewis & Clark Explorer

Farewell is not Forever

4449 - 844 Doubleheader!

4449 and Friends from the Brooklyn Roundhouse

Northwest Railroad Museums

Northwest Short Lines

Mass Transit Pictures

Diesels of the Oregon Pacific Railroad

Steam on the Chelatchie Prairie

PORTLAND PLACES - Willamette Shore Trolley

PORTLAND PLACES - Willamette River Bridges

PORTLAND PLACES - Brooklyn Roundhouse

PORTLAND PLACES - Council Crest Park

PORTLAND PLACES - Golf Junction

PORTLAND PLACES - Hoyt Street Yard & Lovejoy Columns

PORTLAND PLACES - South Waterfront & Aerial Tram

PORTLAND PLACES - Union Station

PLACES - Milwaukie, Oregon

PLACES - Astoria, Oregon

PLACES - Oregon City, Oregon

PLACES - Lebanon, Oregon

PLACES - Antique Powerland, Brooks, Oregon

PLACES - Kelso-Longview, Washington

PLACES - Salem, Oregon

PLACES - Stevens Pass, Washington

PLACES - Havre, Montana

PLACES - Minot, North Dakota

PLACES - Illinois Railway Museum


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