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12/23/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Keith Owen
Dates:5/25/1974 - 9/29/2024
Album Info:Photos of abandoned ROWs.
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Abandoned Spur
Title:  Abandoned Spur
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/2018  Upload Date: 5/21/2021 1:28:05 AM
Location:  Salem, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Abandoned Spur
Title:  Abandoned Spur
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/2018  Upload Date: 5/21/2021 1:29:17 AM
Location:  Salem, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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UP Yakima Branch
Title:  UP Yakima Branch
Description:  Behind me are apartment buildings on the old UP ROW.
Photo Date:  10/11/2018  Upload Date: 11/8/2018 3:02:41 PM
Location:  Granger, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic,Track
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Abandoned Spur
Title:  Abandoned Spur
Description:  Looking northwest. This once ser}ed a sawmill and perhaps other industries.
Photo Date:  5/12/2019  Upload Date: 9/24/2019 6:00:30 PM
Location:  Klamath Falls, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Abandoned Pole Line
Title:  Abandoned Pole Line
Description:  Photographed from the Coast Starlight
Photo Date:  8/17/2019  Upload Date: 2/15/2021 3:23:44 AM
Location:  Cuesta Pass, CA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  35   Comments: 0
Willamette River
Title:  Willamette River
Description:  From the Coast Starlight. The level area at the edge of the trees is the original SP right of way before Lookout Point Dam was built.
Photo Date:  8/18/2019  Upload Date: 3/5/2021 3:08:16 AM
Location:  Hampton[Lane], OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Lookout Point Reservoir
Title:  Lookout Point Reservoir
Description:  Between Crale and Hampton. The level area in the dry lake bed is the original SP right of way.
Photo Date:  8/18/2019  Upload Date: 3/5/2021 3:08:34 AM
Location:  Crale, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  27   Comments: 0
Lookout Point Reservoir
Title:  Lookout Point Reservoir
Description:  Between Crale and Hampton. The level area in the dry lake bed is the original SP right of way.
Photo Date:  8/18/2019  Upload Date: 3/5/2021 3:08:51 AM
Location:  Hampton[Lane], OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  40   Comments: 0
Former Union Pacific at Thorpe Road
Title:  Former Union Pacific at Thorpe Road
Description:  This was abandoned in 1973 during preparation for Expo '74. Union Pacific now uses the BN/BNSF tracks into Spokane.
Photo Date:  9/29/2019  Upload Date: 12/9/2020 1:03:01 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Bridge
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Views:  31   Comments: 0
Former Union Pacific at Thorpe Road
Title:  Former Union Pacific at Thorpe Road
Description:  This was abandoned in 1973 during preparation for Expo '74. Union Pacific now uses the BN/BNSF tracks into Spokane.
Photo Date:  9/29/2019  Upload Date: 12/9/2020 1:03:16 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Bridge
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Former Union Pacific at Marshall Road
Title:  Former Union Pacific at Marshall Road
Description:  This was abandoned in 1973 during preparation for Expo '74. Union Pacific now uses the BN/BNSF tracks into Spokane.
Photo Date:  9/29/2019  Upload Date: 12/9/2020 1:03:46 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
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Former Union Pacific at Marshall Road
Title:  Former Union Pacific at Marshall Road
Description:  This was abandoned in 1973 during preparation for Expo '74. Union Pacific now uses the BN/BNSF tracks into Spokane.
Photo Date:  9/29/2019  Upload Date: 12/9/2020 1:04:01 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
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Former Union Pacific at Marshall Road
Title:  Former Union Pacific at Marshall Road
Description:  This was abandoned in 1973 during preparation for Expo '74. Union Pacific now uses the BN/BNSF tracks into Spokane.
Photo Date:  9/29/2019  Upload Date: 12/9/2020 1:05:14 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
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Former Union Pacific at Marshall Road
Title:  Former Union Pacific at Marshall Road
Description:  This was abandoned in 1973 during preparation for Expo '74. Union Pacific now uses the BN/BNSF tracks into Spokane.
Photo Date:  9/29/2019  Upload Date: 12/9/2020 1:05:40 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
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Former Union Pacific at Scribner
Title:  Former Union Pacific at Scribner
Description:  This was abandoned in 1973 during preparation for Expo '74. Union Pacific now uses the BN/BNSF tracks into Spokane.
Photo Date:  9/29/2019  Upload Date: 12/9/2020 1:06:16 AM
Location:  Scribner, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
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Former Union Pacific at Scribner
Title:  Former Union Pacific at Scribner
Description:  This was abandoned in 1973 during preparation for Expo '74. Union Pacific now uses the BN/BNSF tracks into Spokane.
Photo Date:  9/29/2019  Upload Date: 12/9/2020 1:06:53 AM
Location:  Scribner, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
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Former SP&S from Anderson Road
Title:  Former SP&S from Anderson Road
Description:  The bridge is the former Northern Pacific now BNSF and is still in use.
Photo Date:  9/29/2019  Upload Date: 12/9/2020 1:07:28 AM
Location:  Fish Lake, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
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Deschutes Railway Right of Way
Title:  Deschutes Railway Right of Way
Description:  Abandoned in favor of the Oregon Trunk on the other side of the Deschutes River.
Photo Date:  10/11/2019  Upload Date: 2/18/2020 6:19:26 PM
Location:  Heritage Landing, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  33   Comments: 0
Bear Mountain Forest Products
Title:  Bear Mountain Forest Products
Description:  They used to be served by a spur that went under the overhang. The tracks in the foregound are UP's Portland Sub.
Photo Date:  10/11/2019  Upload Date: 11/26/2019 4:20:34 PM
Location:  Cascade Locks, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  104   Comments: 0
East Leg of Abandoned Wye
Title:  East Leg of Abandoned Wye
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/6/2021 1:28:38 AM
Location:  Gibbon, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  36   Comments: 0
Tail Track of Abandoned Wye
Title:  Tail Track of Abandoned Wye
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/6/2021 1:28:57 AM
Location:  Gibbon, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  33   Comments: 0
West Leg of Abandoned Wye
Title:  West Leg of Abandoned Wye
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/6/2021 1:29:21 AM
Location:  Gibbon, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  40   Comments: 0
Abandoned BN/UP
Title:  Abandoned BN/UP
Description:  The covered hoppers in the distance are on what remains of the former UP main to Walla Walla and Spokane. When UP abandoned the line between here and Athena in the early 1960s NP and later BN used the track to access Pendleton. The rails were just to the right of the remaining east/west UP main.
Photo Date:  4/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/6/2021 1:29:59 AM
Location:  Pendleton, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Abandoned NP/BN/UP Right of Way
Title:  Abandoned NP/BN/UP Right of Way
Description:  The building on the left is Pendleton Woolen Mills. There was a spur next to it. The main ran where the parking line is. First it was UP then NP and finally BN.
Photo Date:  4/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/6/2021 1:30:34 AM
Location:  Pendleton, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Abandoned NP/BN Pendleton Branch
Title:  Abandoned NP/BN Pendleton Branch
Description:  The fill on the left was the old BN Pendleton Branch. It was abandoned in the spring of 1992 and the rails were pulled shortly thereafter.
Photo Date:  4/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/6/2021 1:31:11 AM
Location:  Pendleton, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Abandoned NP/BN Pendleton Branch
Title:  Abandoned NP/BN Pendleton Branch
Description:  The rock cribs mark the location of the near side of the NP\BN bridge over the Umatilla River. The fill is the location of the far side of the bridge. Abandoned in 1992.
Photo Date:  4/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/6/2021 1:31:39 AM
Location:  Pendleton, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Abandoned UP Main to Spokane
Title:  Abandoned UP Main to Spokane
Description:  You can just make out the bridge abutment through the bushes. This line was abandoned between Pendleton and Athena in the early 1960s. The bridge was removed in 1992.
Photo Date:  4/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/6/2021 1:32:07 AM
Location:  Pendleton, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Abandoned NP Pendleton Branch
Title:  Abandoned NP Pendleton Branch
Description:  The fill in this photo was never used by BN. NP installed a cutover to the old UP line behind me when UP abandoned in the early 1960s.
Photo Date:  4/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/6/2021 1:32:38 AM
Location:  Pendleton, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Abandoned
Title:  Abandoned
Description:  Tail track and spur (crossing the street) to the west side of the flour mill. The switching for the flour mill was shared by BN and UP until BN pulled out of Pendleton in 1992. My boys and I got a cab ride in a UP GP38-2 in the early 1980s while it was switching this spur for the mill.
Photo Date:  4/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/6/2021 1:33:04 AM
Location:  Pendleton, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Abandoned Diamond
Title:  Abandoned Diamond
Description:  The existing track still serves the flour mill. Behind me leads to a tail track and the west spur to the mill. BN and UP shared servicing the mill until BN pulled out of Pendleton in 1992.
Photo Date:  4/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/6/2021 1:33:39 AM
Location:  Pendleton, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  66   Comments: 0
Abandoned NP/BN Yard
Title:  Abandoned NP/BN Yard
Description:  Looking toward the UP tracks. Most of the three track yard was behind me. Nothing but buildings there now. The run around was done via a tail track that extended out beside the old high school. The tail track was probably the way NP accessed the yard from there own line into Pendleton.
Photo Date:  4/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/6/2021 1:35:03 AM
Location:  Pendleton, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Yard
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Abandoned UP Main to Spokane
Title:  Abandoned UP Main to Spokane
Description:  This was the UP main to Spokane before Hinkle Yard was built. It was abandoned when Hinkle was finished.
Photo Date:  4/12/2021  Upload Date: 5/12/2021 10:03:52 PM
Location:  Umatilla, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  39   Comments: 0
Abandoned UP Bridge Abutment
Title:  Abandoned UP Bridge Abutment
Description:  This was the UP main before Hinkle Yard was built. The junction between the Blue Mountain sub and the Washy (Spokane) sub was about a half mile east of here.
Photo Date:  4/13/2021  Upload Date: 5/12/2021 10:04:35 PM
Location:  Umatilla, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge
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Views:  33   Comments: 0
Tail Track at Abandoned Blue Heron Mill
Title:  Tail Track at Abandoned Blue Heron Mill
Description:  The track used to cross the street to the left.
Photo Date:  4/13/2021  Upload Date: 5/12/2021 10:05:05 PM
Location:  Oregon City, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  39   Comments: 0
BN and UP Bridges Over I-82
Title:  BN and UP Bridges Over I-82
Description:  Both bridges are abandoned. The UP tracks are still in place but no longer used beyond Granger.
Photo Date:  7/8/2021  Upload Date: 7/12/2021 9:37:57 PM
Location:  Zillah, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Bridge
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Views:  42   Comments: 0
UP Bridge Over the Yakima River
Title:  UP Bridge Over the Yakima River
Description:  This was abandoned in 1985.
Photo Date:  7/8/2021  Upload Date: 7/12/2021 9:38:53 PM
Location:  Parker, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Bridge
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Views:  40   Comments: 0
UP Bridge Over the Yakima River
Title:  UP Bridge Over the Yakima River
Description:  This was abandoned in 1985.
Photo Date:  7/8/2021  Upload Date: 7/12/2021 9:39:08 PM
Location:  Parker, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Bridge
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Views:  26   Comments: 0
Abandoned Railroad Bridge in the Background
Title:  Abandoned Railroad Bridge in the Background
Description:  This was the Southern Pacific line to Dallas, OR. BN operated into West Salem for awhile, then it was abandoned. It's now a pedestrian walkway between two parks.
Photo Date:  8/15/2021  Upload Date: 8/20/2021 10:04:52 PM
Location:  Salem, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Bridge
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Abandoned Railroad Bridge
Title:  Abandoned Railroad Bridge
Description:  This was the Southern Pacific line to Dallas, OR. BN operated into West Salem for awhile, then it was abandoned. It's now a pedestrian walkway between two parks.
Photo Date:  8/15/2021  Upload Date: 8/20/2021 10:05:25 PM
Location:  Salem, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Bridge
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Views:  35   Comments: 0
Abandoned Railroad Bridge
Title:  Abandoned Railroad Bridge
Description:  This was the Southern Pacific line to Dallas, OR. BN operated into West Salem for awhile, then it was abandoned. It's now a pedestrian walkway between two parks.
Photo Date:  8/15/2021  Upload Date: 8/20/2021 10:17:09 PM
Location:  Salem, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Bridge
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Abandoned Shipyard
Title:  Abandoned Shipyard
Description:  Note the abandoned spurs next to the building. No connections anymore. The last ship built here was a barge in 2017.
Photo Date:  11/3/2022  Upload Date: 11/10/2022 6:44:18 PM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  33   Comments: 0
Abandoned Union Pacific Bridge
Title:  Abandoned Union Pacific Bridge
Description:  This was the branch from Starbuck to Pomeroy. The bridge is west of Pomeroy
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/25/2024 7:24:49 PM
Location:  Pomeroy, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Bridge
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Views:  9   Comments: 0
Abandoned NP/BN Branch
Title:  Abandoned NP/BN Branch
Description:  In Walla Walla
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/29/2024 6:24:18 PM
Location:  Walla Walla, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  10   Comments: 0
Abandoned NP/BN Branch
Title:  Abandoned NP/BN Branch
Description:  In Walla Walla
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/29/2024 6:27:16 PM
Location:  Walla Walla, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  7   Comments: 0
Abandoned NP/BN Branch to Pendleton
Title:  Abandoned NP/BN Branch to Pendleton
Description:  The line was abandoned in 1991 and the rails removed in 1992. The box was for a signal for Zanger Junction with the UP Walla Walla branch
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 11/1/2024 6:52:47 PM
Location:  Wallula Junction, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic,Track
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Views:  22   Comments: 0
Abandoned NP/BN Branch to Pendleton
Title:  Abandoned NP/BN Branch to Pendleton
Description:  The line was abandoned in 1991 and the rails removed in 1992.
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 11/1/2024 6:53:06 PM
Location:  Wallula Junction, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic,Track
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Views:  10   Comments: 0
Abandoned Line to Pullman
Title:  Abandoned Line to Pullman
Description:  Looking toward the northwest where the tracks crossed Highway 195.
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/8/2024 6:47:43 PM
Location:  Colfax, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  13   Comments: 0
Abandoned Line to Pullman
Title:  Abandoned Line to Pullman
Description:  Looking north at the north end of town near the wye.
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/20/2024 5:50:05 PM
Location:  Colfax, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  15   Comments: 0
Abandoned Line Heading East
Title:  Abandoned Line Heading East
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/23/2024 11:07:58 PM
Location:  Colfax, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  8   Comments: 0
Abandoned wye.
Title:  Abandoned wye.
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/24/2024 9:32:11 PM
Location:  Colfax, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Bridge,Track
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Views:  11   Comments: 0


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