/tags/railroad railroad en-US Copyright Tue, 10 Dec 2019 08:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2019-12-10/as-it-was-lumber-mill-builds-crescent-city-and-smith-river-railroad Transporting logs to the mill was challenging in the days when ox teams dragged timber to the nearest stream for floating most of the way to the mills.… Tue, 10 Dec 2019 08:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2019-12-10/as-it-was-lumber-mill-builds-crescent-city-and-smith-river-railroad Lynda Demsher /show/as-it-was/2018-08-29/as-it-was-railroad-leaves-two-empty-holes-in-siskiyou-mountains Not far from Ashland, Ore., there are two deep, dead-end holes in a Siskiyou mountain.It was September of 1883 when Chinese railroad workers started… Wed, 29 Aug 2018 07:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2018-08-29/as-it-was-railroad-leaves-two-empty-holes-in-siskiyou-mountains Kernan Turner /show/as-it-was/2017-11-16/as-it-was-railroad-offers-new-route-to-klamath-basin Nearly four decades after completion of the transcontinental railroad, the Upper Klamath River Basin remained virtually untouched by modern commerce at… Thu, 16 Nov 2017 08:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2017-11-16/as-it-was-railroad-offers-new-route-to-klamath-basin Todd Kepple /show/as-it-was/2017-05-02/as-it-was-beekman-son-disputes-jacksonville-railroad-story The usual explanation for why the railroad passes through Medford, Ore., instead of Jacksonville is Jacksonville’s failure in 1884 to pay a $25,000… Tue, 02 May 2017 07:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2017-05-02/as-it-was-beekman-son-disputes-jacksonville-railroad-story Kernan Turner /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2013-10-10/tragedy-at-tunnel-13-revisited It can't really be called "the last great train robbery," because it was a failure as a robbery. But the DeAutremont brothers (Ray, Roy and Hugh) made… Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:35:00 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2013-10-10/tragedy-at-tunnel-13-revisited Geoffrey Riley