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Re: SP Lake Oswego
Author: Shortline Sammie
Date: 08-11-2013 - 21:13

The map is correct...the Jeff Street Branch takes off to the left...mainline curves away from State Street at Wilsonia and crosses the river...Track 618 (Ladd Siding) is long gone as is everything else between State Street and the river.

The Jeff Street is now the Willamette Shore Trolley and the turnout was straight-railed and the track shifted toward State Street. A "new" connection was built alongside the trolley on the alignment of the westerly most yard track and connected to the Tillamook main north of the State Street crossing on a realigned curve.

This all had to be done so the trolley could get into the SP depot in downtown Lake Oswego without crossing the SP which would have triggered all kinds of FRA intervention.

Dick Samuels

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  SP Lake Oswego Pdxrailtransit 08-11-2013 - 13:54
  Re: SP Lake Oswego Shortline Sammie 08-11-2013 - 15:27
  Re: SP Lake Oswego Steve Tucker 08-11-2013 - 20:25
  Re: SP Lake Oswego sanmberry 08-11-2013 - 20:05
  Re: SP Lake Oswego Shortline Sammie 08-11-2013 - 21:13
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