The Portland Second Section

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Introduction.
Updates.
About the name of this site.
Departments.

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Introduction

This page contains links to railroad, model railroad and logging information in the Portland, OR. area and the Pacific Northwest. If you have or know of any information regarding the topics covered in these pages, and would like to share them, or have comments please sent them to me at tjspears@europa.com

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signify links that the link is to my own local pages, all other links are to other peoples pages on Teleport.com or other servers.

Updates.

Last update I have added a make your own railroad name page to the Miscellaneous section.

About the name of this site.

The name The Portland Second Section is a reference to a trains classification. A locomotive would display flags or class lights indicating if it was a extra or a second section was following. A train displayed green class lights as shown on the heading of this page, if another section of the train was following. What does this have to do with the web? Who cares? It's a good name!

Departments.

Scheduled Departures.

Scheduled Departures is a list of upcoming local events, in the Pacific Northwest related to Pacific Northwest railroads or logging. I now have the form for adding events to the Scheduled Departures listing back on line. Please give it a try. or send mail to tjspears@europa.com for any additions or events you would like added.
René Gourley has a list of upcoming events related to railroads and model railroads in British Columbia. and his Resources of interest to British Columbian Railfans.
Model Railroader magazine: schedule of events for ( Idaho, Oregon, Washington or Canada)
Rails Northwest: The Dispatchers Office has Pacific Northwest events.
Conventions: Northwest Logging Modelers Convention. Mar. 23

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The Library.

My TimberTimes page, or the official TimberTimes page.
TimberBeast
My Tall Timber Short Lines page or the official OSO Publishing Tall Timber Short Lines page.
Joseph Anderson's: Consolidated Code of Operating Rules--Revised 1959 is the of the rules used by the Northern Pacific Railway, Spokane International Railroad, Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, Union Pacific Railroad Oregon Division.
René Gourley's: Resources of interest to British Columbian railfans.
British Columbia Archives: The BCARS HOME PAGE has an extensive list of material, including online photographs, related to railroading in British Columbia. Hint: go to the photo archives and ask for "railroad" or "logging railroad" photos, enjoy.
From the TrainNet Forum on CompuServe (c): The Railroad Magazine List
Jeff Scherb's: Model Train Magazine Article Index is a very handy searchable index of several Model Railroad Publications, now including Timber Times and Tall Timber Short Lines!

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Other Interesting Railroads Outside the PNW.

Jack Burgess': YOSEMITE VALLEY RAILROAD.
Ted Hogan's: YOSEMITE VALLEY RAILROAD.
Curt Jamison's and Ian Caldicott's: The Uintah Railway.
Robert Bowdidge's: South Pacific Coast Railroad.
Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad
The Colorado Railroad Museum.
A tour of the Sierra Railway and Railtown 1897.
Travel Town Museum in Griffith Park, Los Angeles: Southern California Scenic Railway Association.
Colin Churcher's: Thurso and Nation Valley Railway
J. Neils Lumber Company Shay #5
Nevada Rails Home Page

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Other Railroad Resources.

The National Model Railroad Assoc.: The NMRA on the Web - Home Page has a very extensive Directory of World Wide Rail Sites.
Daniel Dawdy's Cyberspace World Railroad also has a very extensive links page The Switch Track.
Chris Coleman's WEBVILLE AND HYPERTEXT RAILROAD COMPANY
Doug White's Dougs's Railfan Page
Wes Barris Steam Locomotive Information
Jeremiah L. Toth Railroads Page and his list of Historic Railroads and Railroad Museums
Darryl Van Nort's: A Ladder Track has a great collection of old steam locomotive images, and covers the Illinois Railway Museum
Clint Chamberlin's Trains - HARRIS Mountaintop
Jon Roma's: list North American railroad frequencies
Wendy Auman's: Shining Time Station, Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
Mike Teague's: The Last Run of the N&W 611 It's not The Pacific Northwest but it's worth checking out anyway.
Robert Bowdidge's: Railroad-related Internet Resources.
ModelRailroad.Com .

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Photo Archives.

Detroit Publishing Company: The Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company date from around 1880-1920 and cover mostly the eastern United States. Here are the photographs from the results of a railroad search or better yet go to the search page and enter logging.
University of California, Riverside: UCR has a collection of stereoscopic photographs of trains.
Picture Gallery - Directory: pix/trains/usa/steam
Index of /graphics/trains/

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Search Engines and other Tools.

Search the world: With Virtual Tourist ( Oregon, Washington, Idaho or British Columbia ) or
CityNet ( Oregon, Washington, Idaho or British Columbia ).
Search the web: With Yahoo, Lycos, Webcrawler, InfoSeek or Open Text.
Search Usenet News: With DejaNews.
Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page
The Smithsonian Institution Home Page

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Miscellaneous.

James Spears' Home Page or James' home railroad the C. E. Keen Flume & Lumber Co.
Random Railroad name generator generate random railroad names. Fun yes, usefull? who knows...

The Portland Second Section

Contents

Welcome.

Introduction

Updates.

About the name of this site.

Departments.

Scheduled Departures.

Historical.

Prototype, 12" to the foot, 1:1 Scale.

Model Railroads.

The Library.

Other Interesting Railroads Outside the PNW.

Other Railroad Resources.

Photo Archives.

Search Engines and other Tools.

Miscellaneous.