Oregon Central & Eastern Railroad vouchers

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Descriptive Summary

Title: Oregon Central & Eastern Railroad vouchers

Dates: 1894-1898

Collection Number: MS 135

Creator/Collector: Oregon Central & Eastern Railroad

Extent: 8 linear foot boxes

Repository: California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

Sacramento, California 95814

Abstract: Vouchers.

Language of Material: English

Access

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Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

Oregon Central & Eastern Railroad vouchers. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

Acquisition Information

Gift of Southern Pacific Railroad, New York Collection.

Biography/Administrative History

The Oregon Central & Eastern Railroad Company, incorporated April 12, 1895 to acquire (through foreclosure and reorganization) on April 13, 1895 the property of the Willamette Valley & Coast and Oregon Pacific. The OC&E constructed no railroad; it was operated by its own organization from date acquired until sold to the Corvallis & Eastern on January 24, 1898. During its corporate existence it abandoned 1.06 miles of track from Hoover east. The OC&E was dissolved on January 20, 1906. [Guy Dunscomb, A CENTURY OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM LOCOMOTIVES, 1862-1962 (Modesto, California: 1967), p. 378]

Scope and Content of Collection

Accounting vouchers from 1896 through 1898 from before incorporation of the Oregon Central & Eastern Railroad in 1895 until its sale in 1898 to Corvallis & Eastern.