The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company was a rail and steamboat transport company that operated a rail network of 1,143 miles running east from Portland, Oregon, United States, to northeastern Ore
OR&N 197 at Oregon Rail Heritage Center
Southern Pacific's Shasta Limited on the OWR & N.
Advertisement in 1887
The ghost town of Burke, Idaho was situated in such a narrow canyon that the O.R.&.N. and Northern Pacific operated on main street. (1914) The Tiger Hotel was built over the tracks due to space constraints.
SS Columbia (1880)
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SS Columbia was a cargo and passenger steamship that was owned by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and later the San Francisco and Portland Steamship Company. Columbia was constructed in 1880
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…in Oregon. The large steamships City of Chester, George W. Elder and Oregon were included in the purchase. Columbia The innovative and ill-fated Columbia. In 1880, the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company accepted delivery of the steamship Columbia from John Roach & Sons in Chester, Pennsylvania…
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The SS Columbia around 1880, under full sail in rough seas displaying all of her colors
Artwork of the SS Columbia in the late 1890s. The Union Pacific Railroad logo is sported on the ship's funnel.
The Edison dynamos of the SS Columbia as seen in May 1880