Railroads of Hillsboro (Images of Rail)
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (863 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1467132365 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Author D.C. Jesse Burkhardt is associate editor of the Hillsboro Tribune, the city’s weekly community newspaper. He lives in Aloha, an unincorporated community that borders Hillsboro, with his wife and daughter.
. He lives in Aloha, an unincorporated community that borders Hillsboro, with his wife and daughter. About the Author Author D.C. Jesse Burkhardt is associate editor of the Hillsboro Tribune, the city’s weekly community newspaper
Terrrific pictorial guide to the railroads of Western Oregon. Kenneth G. West I'm a railroad fan and live west of Portland, Oregon. I happened upon this book and love it. It covers the entire history of railroading in western Oregon through the early 2000s. It is very much a pictorial history and is loaded with pictures. The text consists of helpful
When the first trains arrived in Hillsboro in 1871 under the banner of the Oregon & California Railroad, the town began to develop into a key railroad junction point. Hillsboro was strategically located just 20 miles from the booming Portland metropolis, a regional center of manufacturing and trade, and by 1911, Hillsboro was where several rail lines branched off. At the same time, travelers moved through Hillsboro on passenger trains, including the Southern Pacific Railroad’s famed “Red Electrics” and the Oregon Electric Railway’s interurbans, which advertised passenger service with “no soot and no cinders.”. Another line cut south into the fertile Willamette Valley, accessing prime agricultural lands that produced a bounty of wheat and other commodities. As these routes developed, heavy volumes of freight began rolling into Hillsboro. One line headed west toward Tillamook, where the railroad tapped rich timber resources along the Oregon coast. Hillsboro, Oregon, always seemed destined to be an important railroad town. A third route carried passengers and goods to and from Portland and the neighboring communities of Cornelius and Forest Grove