[or-roots] Early Oregon Railroad

[cjp joppe]

Wonderful! I'll give that a try - and BTW hope you
feel better soon! Somewhere I know had seen something
from this group about early RR's but couldn't find it
again. 
--- Leslie Chapman <khanjehgil at presys.com> wrote:

> Carole;
> 
> A while back I think I posted some links on Oregon
> Railroad history, but
> can't swear to it, may have just been looking for a
> factoid I posted. I be
> too sick to want to chase it down for you now, but I
> know there is a lot of
> stuff online about the subject, not just SP but
> precursors etc. Also you
> might want to look up address for Southern Pacific
> Historical society or
> some such. I know you can probably find a link to it
> through
> Modelrailroader.com.
> 
> We train nuts have all sorts of historical stuff on
> our favorite railroads
> and if you send a copy of that photo to Model
> Railroader one of them will
> probably be able to tell you who is in the photo and
> what day of the month
> the photo was taken and where and all sorts of other
> details, and if they
> can't tell you they'll probably make something up.
> 
> Les C
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cjp joppe
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:33 AM
> Subject: [or-roots] Early Oregon Railroad
> 
> 
> Greetings
> Does anyone have any contacts for Early 1900 Oregon
> RR? I have some photos of early steam shovels laying
> track for the S&P. My Grandmother's Stepfather Earl
> Hanson ran a crew and shovel that laid track from
> about 1916-1930. The only other identified
> individual
> in the photos is Clark Radford. I can attach a photo
> (s) (if that is okay) or willing to send to
> interested
> individuals.
> 
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carole
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