Sumpter Valley Railway | |
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Locale | Sumpter, Oregon |
Terminus | McEwen, Oregon |
Commercial operations | |
Name | Sumpter Valley Railway |
Original gauge | 3 ft (914 mm) |
Preserved operations | |
Operated by | Sumpter Valley Railroad Restoration Inc. |
Stations | 2 |
Length | 5.1 miles (8.2 km) |
Preserved gauge | 3 ft (914 mm) |
Commercial history | |
Opened | 1890 |
Sumpter Valley Railway Historic District | |
Nearest city | Bates, Oregon |
Area | 1,223.8 acres (495.3 ha) |
Built | 1890 |
Architect | West, Joseph A. |
NRHP reference No. | 87001065[1] |
Added to NRHP | August 3, 1987 |
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The Sumpter Valley Railway, or Sumpter Valley Railroad, is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge heritage railroad located in Baker County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Built on a right-of-way used by the original railway of the same name, it carries excursion trains on a roughly 5-mile (8.0 km) route between McEwen and Sumpter.[2] The railroad has two steam locomotives and several other pieces of rolling stock.[3] Passenger excursion trains operate on weekends and holidays from Memorial Day through the end of September.[3]