(rshsdepot) 1. Bangor, California part 1 (Oroville, Cal. & Wash, Orland)

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

The opposite of Brittany might be Butte County, California

Bangor, Cal. (Butte County)
Lat. 39° 22' 30" N to 39° 30' 00" N
Long. 121° 22' 30"  TO 121° 30" N
These are the parameters of the topographic map, Bangor Quad.

Map of Butte County in northern California:
http://www.bcag.org/images/county.gif
http://www.paradisedirect.com/paradise/butteca.gif
In this school district map, the Bangor district is on southeast of county:
http://www.bcoe.org/home/images/district_map_blue.gif
On this detailed map of Butte County:
http://casil.ucdavis.edu/cgi-bin/cnty_drg?cnty=butte&zoom=1&width=2400&heigh
t=2400
you see the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Western Pacific both went to
Oroville, and you can see the WP going up Feather River Canyon. Bangor is on
this map, no railroads, unless there were mining or limber ones once. Bangor
is south of Oroville, a bit east on the road that skirts the county line
going SE-NE, On the left of this map outside the Butte County line, is
another SP line which also joined the main SP line n-s at Orland northeast
of this map. This line's stops on this map are, heading south, Hamilton
City, Ordbend, Glenn, Codora, Princeton, Stegerman. Note also the SP branch
or spur SW out of Oroville into the Fernandez area where it says "tailings"
so this is a mine.
  Another SP line ran through Gridley heading north to Biggs, Richvale,
Nelson, Durham, Chico, Noro, Anita before leaving this county to Vina, Los
Molinas where it joined the SP line n-s; south it met this same line south
of Arbuckle. That line heads south, splitting before, the one to the east
meeting the mainline at Davis, the western one went to Vacaville. It went
north to Ashland Oregon and north, Amtrak uses the one through Chico. Note
other routes, some abandoned on this map. One is the Sacramento Northern
from above Chico south through Chico, Shopee (sp?), Oroville Jct., Peachlo,
East Gridley. To Sacramento, to Oakland, to San Francisco over the bridge
for a few years. An interurban railway with electric overhead wires.
  There is an SP line going east out of Chico to Paradise, Magalia, Stirling
City.

Cities/towns in Butte County include Chico, Oroville, Paradise and Gridley

Western Pacific 2-8-8-2 east of Oroville in the Feather River Canyon, 1936:
http://www.yesteryeardepot.com/WPART.JPG
The Oroville WP depot, 1940: http://www.yesteryeardepot.com/WPOROVIL.JPG
http://www.readingtimes.com.tw/folk/railroad/museum/images/OR1.jpg
The Depot restaurant is now at the WP Oroville depot:
http://oroville-city.com/photos/depot1.jpg
WP engine in Oroville, Hewitt Park, 1959:
http://www.cityoforoville.org/Parks/Train.JPG
Detail:  http://www.readingtimes.com.tw/folk/railroad/museum/images/OR2.jpg
Sleeping car Silver Glacier, WP train #17, The California Zephyr, at
Oroville, 6/30/1969: http://www.jerryapp.com/arcv3b/ja-r330.jpg
UP in Oroville, 2000:
http://community.webshots.com/s/image3/5/9/20/5350920IcblQEopRi_ph.jpg

[Great Northern RR Oroville, Washington depot (1907) (it has been moved):
http://www.greatnorthernempire.net/images/OrovilleDepotTrackside.JPG
http://www.greatnorthernempire.net/images/OrovilleDepotCurbside.JPG
Detail:
tp://www.greatnorthernempire.net/images/OrovilleDepotBaywindow.JPG   ]


The Orland-Newville and Pacific Railroad is a volunteer railroad on the
Glenn County Fairgrounds which passes the original SP Orland depot, but they
don't show it on their page:
http://www2.redbluffdailynews.com/specialsections/hwy99/orland.train.html
Orland, tracks on left:
http://www.westcoastroads.com/california/images005/bl-005_orland.jpg

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