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"Monday, September 20, 1908 was a big day at Wallowa City. The first train to ever enter the city made the run from Elgin that day and marked a milestone in the development of Wallowa County. Up to this time people from the Wallowa valley were…

"Hauling sacked wheat, a line of wagons are waiting to unload in Imbler, Oregon - circa 1895." The railroad depot and a boxcar are visible in the right side background.

"The P.F.M.Co. Mill & Elevator" Located behind the parked train: "Island City Ware House" "Island City, Oregon - Pioneer Flouring Mill Co. - after 1896. Originally, Island City Mercantile & Milling Co., until 1896 when the milling interests were…

"Shay locomotive (probably #3) - Maxville, Oregon - about 1925."

"Sumpter Valley Railway, Sumpter, Oregon - 1900's. Train stopped at the site of the Oregon Smelting and Refining Co. Plant. Nickname: 'Stump Dodger'."

"Sumpter Valley Railway - circa 1910-1915"

"Lee Fine, Fay Coon, Relaford Hayes" stand next to train stock cars in Boatman Meadows, Maxville, Oregon - 1923. One of the cars is loaded with railroad "ties for Union Pacific," and the other car is loaded with "logs for Bowman-Hicks, La Grande…

"Midway Camp [Pleasant Valley, Baker County, Oregon] and Mine Crew standing in front of a log cabin - circa 1901-1903."

"Union, Oregon - circa 1910. A Dummy engine leaving a storage building with a railroad engineer, a young girl and a woman aboard."

"George & Ray Glover - 6 and 4 years of age - March 1907"