Erik H. Wrote:
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> T.I.Runout Wrote:
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> > Interesting that the indicators show #77, but
> the
> > train appears to be headed the wrong way
> (towards
> > Perrydale)
>
> I wonder if the train had just been turned and the
> crew hadn't yet changed the train indicator before
> departing Dallas.

That's what I'm thinking.


>
> With the demise of Willamette Industries and the
> long standing mill in Dallas, a good amount of the
> old trackage has been ripped up in recent years.
> There is still remnants of all four routes out of
> Dallas (the original Oregonian Railway narrow
> gauge line north to Perrydale and south to Airlie,
> and the Salem, Falls City & Western line west to
> Falls City and east to Salem), but it would not
> surprise me if the SFC&W trackage west and the
> Oregonian Railway trackage southeast will be
> ripped up in the very near future. That would
> leave just a few hundred feet of the Oregonian
> Railway trackage between Main Street and Ash
> Street...and the rest being the SFC&W trackage
> east to Gerlinger and the current connection to
> the P&W's Westside Line.

Until some time in the 1990's that small segment of the old Airlie Branch headed up Church Street all the way to Washington. P&W cut it back to where it is currently stubbed off. Somewhere I have some shots of the street trackage I took in the late 80's or early 90's.