The Portland and Willamette Valley Railway was incorporated in January 1885 to continue construction of a railroad line between Portland and Dundee, Oregon, United States that had been started a few years earlier.
The railroad was later taken over by Southern Pacific Railroad.
The Willamette Shore Trolley runs on a part of that Dundee-Portland line, between Lake Oswego and Portland.
Famous quotes containing the words portland, valley and/or railway:
“It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.”
—For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“In a valley late bees with whining gold
Thread summer to the loose ends of sleep....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)