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Railways
Use Champlin Oils – Union Pacific RR – Salina, KS
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North American Road Maps – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE – [http://zippy.cso.uiuc.edu/~roma/roadmaps/naoilCa-Cm.html]
Champlin Oil and Refining was founded in Enid, Oklahoma in 1920 and at its peak marketed in 15 midwestern states. Retail operations were sold to America Petrofina and rebranded as Fina in the early Eighties. – North American Road Maps
Portland General Electric Company, 1906 – PDX, OR – Fred King, Featured Guest
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Although this isn’t the ‘typical’ fading ad, it is something you might be interested in…. The age of the sign was what I found interesting. This sign is on a brick building in a large, electrical substation in NE Portland, OR – Fred King
PGE Boiler #16 in 1988 – Portland General Electric Company, Boiler No. 16, 1841 Southeast Water Street, Portland, Multnomah County, OR” Taken in April 1988? – Wikipedia Commons – CLICK FOR LINK
The utility was founded in 1888 by Parker F. Morey and Edward L. Eastham as Willamette Falls Electric Company. On June 3, 1889 it sent power generated by one of four brush arc light dynamos at Willamette Falls over a 14-mile electric power transmission line to Portland, the first US power plant to do so. – Wikipedia
Preserve Oregon Blog – CLICK FOR LINK
PGE also purchased the 1891 Union Power Company in 1905, the 1889 Albina Light & Water Company in 1892, and the 1892 Vancouver Electric Light & Power Company in 1906.PGE, Portland Railway Company, and Oregon Water Power & Railway Company merged in 1906, becoming the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company (PRL&P) – Wikipedia
PDX History dot com – STREETCARS – CLICK FOR LINK
Southern Pacific Railroad Ad – Orientalism – They’re Coming to See California… Why Don’t You Come Too? – April 1904, Vol. XII
Sunset Magazine – April 1904, Vol. XII
Since the publication of Edward Said‘s Orientalism in 1978, much academic discourse has begun to use the term “Orientalism” to refer to a general patronizing Western attitude towards Middle Eastern, Asian and North African societies. In Said’s analysis, the West essentializes these societies as static and undeveloped—thereby fabricating a view of Oriental culture that can be studied, depicted, and reproduced. Implicit in this fabrication, writes Said, is the idea that Western society is developed, rational, flexible, and superior – Wikipedia
Sunset Magazine – April 1904, Vol. XII – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE
Yes, “they” are coming to California by rail, but not as tourists.
The first Chinese were hired in 1865 [sic] at approximately $28 per month to do the very dangerous work of blasting and laying ties over the treacherous terrain of the high Sierras. They lived in simply dwellings and cooked their own meals, often consisting of fish, dried oysters and fruit, mushrooms and seaweed. – Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
From Sunset Magazine article – California Netherlands – April 1904 CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE
In the late 1800’s, thousands of Chinese and Japanese workers were brought to work in the fruit orchards and sugar beet fields. They were the first farmworkers, to form associations and strike for improved wages and conditions. But their victories were short-lived.
The growers were able to play them off against anglos and other immigrant workers, especially during the depression years of the 1870’s and early 1900’s – when Asian workers were blamed for taking away jobs from “Americans.” The result was racist laws excluding the Chinese (1882) and Japanese (1920) from the U.S. – Farmworkers’ Website – The Struggle in California
The Train Pulls into Gouldsboro – Gouldsboro Historical Society – NEPA
July 24, 2010 - iPhone Shot with Hipstamatic App © Frank H. Jump
July 24, 2010 - iPhone Shot with Hipstamatic App © Frank H. Jump
July 24, 2010 - iPhone Shot with Hipstamatic App © Frank H. Jump
July 24, 2010 - iPhone Shot with Hipstamatic App © Frank H. Jump
July 24, 2010 - iPhone Shot with Hipstamatic App © Frank H. Jump
July 24, 2010 - iPhone Shot with Hipstamatic App © Frank H. Jump
July 24, 2010 - iPhone Shot with Hipstamatic App © Frank H. Jump
O & W Station – Middletown, NY
© Frank H. Jump
- Hudson Valley Ruins – Ontario & Western Railway Station – Middletown, NY
- Map at Kingly Heirs dot com
- New York Ontario Western Museum – Roscoe, NY
- Ontario & Western Railways – Wikipedia
- O & W Caboose – Ready Made Toys
On March 29, 1957, the last train ran on the 541-mile New York, Ontario & Western Railway/NYO&W. It was the first major railroad to completely abandon its line when a bankruptcy judge ordered it liquidated and remained the largest major railroad liquidation until the Rock Island suffered a similar fate in 1980.
Based in Middletown, N.Y., the New York, Ontario & Western Railway, or “O&W,” was incorporated in 1882 to succeed the bankrupt New York & Oswego Midland Railroad. The railroad’s mainline ran from Weehawken, N.J., in the greater New York City area to Oswego, N.Y., a port city on Lake Ontario. It had branch lines in New York to Kingston, Port Jervis, Utica, and Rome and to Scranton, Pa., where it served anthracite coal mines. South of Cornwall, N.Y., the railroad operated over New York Central’s West Shore Line along the Hudson River via trackage rights to Weehawken, NJ and a ferry connection across the Hudson River to New York City. – Ready Made Toys dot com
The O&W reached from New York City to the Great Lakes - kinglyheirs dot com
