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Advertisement for the sale of the O.C.T.C. boats, placed August 3, 1919 in the Oregonian newspaper. On Thursday, May 2, 1918, it was announced that the Oregon City Transportation Company would cease operations. [35] High costs and lack of business forced the business to close, which ended all steamboat service on the upper Willamette. [35]
Mills, Randall V., Sternwheelers up Columbia – A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE 1947 (1977 printing by Bison Press) ISBN 0-8032-5874-7 Newell, Gordon R. ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest , Superior Publishing, Seattle WA (1966)
Highways serving Pendleton include Interstate 84 and U.S. Route 30 running east–west and U.S. Route 395 running north–south. The city is also served by Oregon Route 37 and Oregon Route 11. [35] Pendleton lies along the Union Pacific Railroad (UP), constructed originally through the area in the 1880s by the Oregon Railway and Navigation ...
The American Empress, formerly the Empress of the North, is a 360-foot (110 m) diesel-powered sternwheeler built in 2002 by Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, of Freeland, Washington, [27] the same company that was founded in Hood River, Oregon, in 1939 and was previously known as Nichols Boat Works. [28]
The history of steamboats on the Oregon Coast begins in the late 19th century. Before the development of modern road and rail networks, transportation on the coast of Oregon was largely water-borne. This article focuses on inland steamboats and similar craft operating in, from south to north on the coast: Rogue River, Coquille River, Coos Bay ...
Albany was a stern-wheel driven steamboat that operated on the Willamette River from 1868 to 1875. This vessel should not be confused with the later sternwheeler Albany (ex N.S. Bentley), which ran, also on the Willamette River, from 1896 to 1906, when it was rebuilt and renamed Georgie Burton.