Hogg's Coast Range railroad runs into eventual ruin

Hogg's Coast Range railroad runs into eventual ruin: "Hogg's Coast Range railroad runs into eventual ruin
Saturday, October 01, 2005

The plan was audacious in its simplicity: a fine railroad from Yaquina Bay to tie with the Union Pacific Railroad in Idaho. Newport would be another San Francisco. Corvallis, Albany and Bend would also profit mightily.

And Portland? Poor Portland would be relegated to second-class city status, isolated far inland on the placid banks of the Willamette."