During the 1880s the construction of the Oregon Pacific Railroad dominated local politics in Corvallis and surrounding Benton County.
GN #187 was sold to Pacific Transportation Services as #1001; it was subsequently sold to Repco as their #187, then to the Molalla Western Railway under the same number, then to related East Portland Traction; the two latter systems merged into the Oregon Pacific Railroad in 1997.
Samtrak was a passenger train operated by the Oregon Pacific Railroad, and named after the owner of the railroad, Dick Samuels.
By 1885, the Oregon Pacific Railroad had been built from the Willamette Valley all the way through to Yaquina City.
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Once the Oregon Pacific Railroad reached Toledo, on the east end of Yaquina Bay, tourists started coming to the bay from the Willamette Valley.
The first form of the name was "Wrens", used for a station established by the Oregon Pacific Railroad in the locality in 1886.
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