People standing on the platform of the Wilkesboro train station near Banks, Oregon, circa 1911-1914. This was a stop on the electric interurban United Railways route that ran from Portland to Wilkesboro beginning in 1911. Train car number 900 is on the track. For another photograph of this station and more information about the railway line, see: Hallgren & Due, "United Railways of Oregon" (1961).
A sign on the station reads, "Great Northern Express Co." The Great Northern Express was a conventional railway that connected to the United Railways line.
The photographer, William Alonso Clapshaw, exposed half of a glass plate negative to create this image. The other half of the glass plate was used to make another photograph; see image PUA_MS154_011b. Flaws in the photograph are due to dust and deterioration of the emulsion layer on the negative.
A photograph of two men sitting in front of the Perrydale Railroad Station. Perrydale is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Oregon. This photograph was printed on postcard stock and includes a note to "Miss Winnette Sears". It is postmarked 1909. This photograph is part of the Charles Lovell and Winnette Sears Walker Collection. Winnette was a 1906 alumna of Linfield College. Charles was an alumnus of Tualatin Academy who later became a musician and an insurance agent in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Black and white image of an old railroad locomotive, identified as 104 Long --Bell, with two men standing beside it. Though museum records do not specifically identify either the engine or the men beside it, the locomotive is most likely a Baldwin locomotive run by the Oregon-American Lumber company. The Oregon-American lumber company harvested lumber in the Vernonia and Keasey area in the early 1900s, and delivered its lumber to market via a rail line that ran from Vernonia to Banks, and then into Portland via Cornelius Pass.
Sepia-toned image of a railroad station. Two children, a boy and a girl, stand on the tracks, while another child is visible in the doorway of the station. Three other people stand at the end of the station, beside a Model-T type car. A sign reading 'Buxton' hangs on the end of the building.
Black and white image of a warehouse next to a rail line, with covering the ground. Lettered on the front of the warehouse is 'J. E. Morback. Farm Produce a Spe[cialty].' Two men stand on the loading dock, and a power line follows the railroad line into the distance.
Sepia-toned image of a railroad trestle running across a valley and curving away into some trees. Tree stumps are visible in a cleared area, and the trestle consists of four levels, built entirely of wood.
Sepia-toned image of a street with buildings on one side and a railroad on the other, with logged and burned timber on the hillside behind it. At least one three-story building stands at the end of the block, with two other two-story buildings with square front facades. A tent is set up between two of the buildings, and a small booth on the other side of another. Railroad cards sit on the track, and pieces of another building in construction sits directly beside the track.
Sepia-toned image of a number of men standing on a wooden trestle. The trestle if four stories tall, and men stand on the top level where the tracks will run, and on another, lower level. One man is visible on the hillside just beneath the trestle; several others are seated in and standing on the various levels of the trestle. The woods in the background are in full leaf, and none of the men wear heavy coats. Several hold large mauls or axes.
Black and white photograph of train cars sitting on a side track. Visible is a caboose, several empty timber cars, and a number of other train cars. The fields nearby are brown, and a few trees are visible in the distance. The train switch is off .
Black and white image of a train on a wooden trestle bridge crossing a wide river. The far right of the image shows a metal bridge, but the rest of the bridge is wooden.
A steam engine travels through newly felled trees on the Tillamook Line of the Southern Pacific railway, which ran between Banks, Timber, and Cochran, Oregon.
