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)

    “Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.”
    —John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)