Sumpter Valley Railway

Sumpter Valley Railway
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
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Nearest city	Bates, Oregon
Area	1,223.8 acres (495.3 ha)
Built	1890 (1890)
Architect	West, Joseph A.
NRHP reference No.	87001065[1]
Added to NRHP	August 3, 1987

Sumpter Valley Railway route map
Legend
OR&N Baker City 0 South Baker 1.5 Salisbury 9.5 Lockhart 12.0 Thompson 13.2 Boulder Gorge 16.2 Mason 17.0 Curry 18.0 McEwen 22.5 Heritage Rwy Sumpter Wye 27.9 Sumpter 29.0 Sumpter Wye 30.2 Larch 34.7 Alder Springs 36.8 McCoy 40.0 Whitney 43.4 Carroll 47.1 Tipton 51.0 White Pine 54.9 Austin 59.2 Bates 60.2 Prairie City 81.0 DeWitt Museum

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]