America West: Sumpter Valley Railroad and Dredge, Oregon
In 1971, a small group of volunteers set out to rebuild the narrow gauge Sumpter Valley Railway in Eastern Oregon.
Nearly all of today's excursion and museum railroads operate on abandoned rights-of-way. The Sumpter Valley Railway, located 22 miles southwest of Baker City Oregon, on U.S. Highway 7, has a unique characteristic over all of these railroads. Volunteers built the railroad themselves. Although the road bed and track is mostly on original Sumpter Valley Railway right-of-way, the original track was scrapped in 1947, and nearly all of the original road bed had eroded away. With an almost all volunteer work force, the SVRR has rebuilt over 7 miles of track, and is still growing. At the end of a typical 5-mile excursion, the RR makes a stop at the Sumpter Valley Dredge, a State historic site related to past gold exploration.
Grant's Getaways: Sumpter Valley Railroad
The beauty of traveling Oregon’s back roads and byways is the unexpected treasure that you may find along the way – not just the scenery, but interesting lessons about Oregon’s past. When the whistle blows near Sumpter, Oregon one thing’s for sure: adventure isn’t far behind! Up to four times a day, Baker County’s Sumpter Valley Railroad makes the twelve mile round trip run from McEwen Depot to Sumpter. It’s a railroad that reaches back to the early days of settlement in NE Oregon
Sumpter Gold Dredge near Baker City Oregon
Short video looking at the guts of the Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge in Baker County, Oregon.
Riding the Sumpter Valley Railroad
The Sumpter Valley Railroad runs a limited Steam Locomotive service from McEwen, Oregon to Sumpter, Oregon. This Railroad is run entirely by volunteers. It is worth the trip to experience this unique journey. The Sumpter Valley Railroad is located in Eastern Oregon, southwest of Baker City, Oregon.
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Grant's Getaways: Sumpter Valley Railroad
Grant's Getaways: Sumpter Valley Railroad
Grant's Getaways: Downtown Baker City
Baker City is the largest intact 19th-century street-scape in the American West. There are more than 100 buildings on the National Registry of Historic Places, so this tour is like visiting a museum of Victorian architecture. Explore downtown on a horse-drawn carriage ride.
Project 2059 - Dorena, Baker City
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Sumpter, Oregon
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Sumpter is a city in Baker County, Oregon, United States.The population was 204 at the 2010 census.Sumpter is named after Fort Sumter by its founders.The name was inspired by a rock as smooth and round as a cannonball, which reminded a local resident of the American Civil War and Fort Sumter.
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Whitney, Oregon SVRR Sumpter Valley Railroad
Part of my RRP CB500X 'Wild West' tour Sept 2015
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Sumpter, Oregon
Sumpter is a city in Baker County, Oregon, United States. The population was 204 at the 2010 census. Sumpter is named after Fort Sumter by its founders. The name was inspired by a rock as smooth and round as a cannonball, which reminded a local resident of the American Civil War and Fort Sumter.
Baker County was named for Edward Dickinson Baker, a U.S. Senator from Oregon who was killed in the Battle of Ball's Bluff during the American Civil War. Sumpter, first settled by Euro-Americans during this war, was named after Fort Sumter in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The fort was often mentioned in war dispatches read by the settlers. An account in the Baker Democrat–Herald many decades later reported that a round rock found in the area in the early 1860s had looked to residents like a cannonball and, reinforced by the war news, had reminded them of Fort Sumter.
In 1883, Joseph D. Young became the first postmaster of Sumpter, and, according to his grandson, was not allowed by the U.S. Post Office to use the old name, Sumter. Since freight to the region then depended on pack mules, Young chose the form Sumpter, which was close to the original spelling and evoked the term sumpter mule.
The community was platted in 1889, becoming a mining boom town about 10 years later. Until transportation by rail became feasible in the area, Sumpter was little more than a huddle of crude log cabins.
A narrow gauge railway reached Sumpter in 1897. Built by David C. Eccles, the Sumpter Valley Railway (SVR) ran from Baker City through Sumpter and on to Prairie City, which it reached in 1907. Until the line shut down in the 1930s, ranchers, mining interests, and timber companies used it to move freight.
Shortly after the SVR arrived, the city expanded near a set of deep-shaft gold mines with a combined total of of tunnels. The population grew to more than 2,000. Sumpter ...
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Sumpter Valley Railway - Steam Engine #19
Scenes from Steam Locomotive #19 from McEwen Station to the Sumpter Valley Dredge State Heritage Area. This is a great way to see changed landscape that the Sumpter Valley dredges left behind.
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Elkhorn Scenic Byway - Baker City to McEwen, OR (5-27-12)
About 30 miles of the 106-mile Elkhorn Scenic Byway loop.
Music: Doc Watson: The Train That Carried My Girl From Town (album: The Essential Doc Watson)
Triple Oregon Train Ride
In the summer of 2014 Pacific Rails Productions visited three different train rides within the state of Oregon. First stop was the Sumpter Valley Railroad, located about 24 miles west of Baker City, that takes passengers through late-1800s gold dredging operations on its way to the old mining town of Sumpter. Next stop was the Oregon Pacific Railroad in Portland and its short excursion along the Willamette River and through a wildlife refuge between the Oregon Rail Heritage Center and Oaks Amusement Park. Last stop was a revisit to the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad for a trip along Tillamook Bay from Rockaway Beach back to Garibaldi. It's a jam-packed trip featuring music from the popular PC game Railroad Tycoon 3. All Aboard!
Elkhorn Scenic Byway, Oregon ~ 1/4 (Sumpter to Granite) 6-29-13
In northeastern Oregon, the Elkhorn Scenic Byway is only open in the summer & early fall (usually opening in late June or early July). Driven clockwise from Sumpter, Oregon (home of the Sumpter Valley Railroad steam train and Sumpter Valley Dredge State Park), the winding Forest Road 73 climbs two passes (Blue Springs Summit & Elkhorn Mountain Summit), passes the almost-ghost town of Granite (population about 40) and Anthony Lakes Ski Area (operating since 1933), before dropping down into the Baker Valley. The Elkhorn Mountains rise all around, unfortunately the forward facing camera (and the tall pines) hide most of them on this drive.
This first segment of the drive starts in the town of Sumpter and climbs over Blue Springs Summit before coming to the tiny village of Granite (it's to the left, up on the hillside). These were both boom towns during the gold rush years, and now welcome summer tourists.
Music = Wil Mimnaugh: Big Life (album: By December)
[I liked the song's message to be big in your life ... go out and find new places and adventures and live life big.]
the Sumpter Valley Railroad's No 19 Steaming into Sumpter
The official start of summer in Baker County, Oregon. The Sumpter Valley Railroad's No 19 steam locomotive steaming into the Sumpter Station with a load of passengers headed to the Sumpter Deredge State Park and the Sumpter Flea Market
Sumpter, Oregon - Then and Now
Sumpter, Oregon
Sumpter scare investigated
Its easy to panic during an investigation and just except something as paranormal when your in the moment. However, its always a good idea to gather your thoughts, take a step back and investigate the experience by exhausting all other possibilities before jumping to that conclusion. Sometimes you'll find that doors closing or buildings creaking are NOT caused by something beyond the grave at all. OH! and never ever run in that dark as you can injure yourself or others. Enjoy...
Sumpter Valley Railway
Nice ride out of Mc Ewen, OR. behind a wood burning geared Heisler steam locomotive. Includes a train robbery reenactment.