Oregon Pacific Railroad

Oregon Pacific Railroad or Oregon Pacific Railway may refer to:

  • Oregon Pacific Railroad (1880–1894), railroad from Yaquina Bay (Newport) to Santiam Pass
  • Oregon Pacific Railroad (1997), shortline railroad on the east side of Portland

Famous quotes containing the words oregon, pacific and/or railroad:

    “When Paul Bunyan’s loggers roofed an Oregon bunkhouse with shakes, fog was so thick that they shingled forty feet into space before discovering they had passed the last rafter.”
    —State of Oregon, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    “I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say—I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
    —Harriet Tubman (1821–1913)