Using the highway bridge as your vantage point and looking east:
To the left of the main is the Mt Morris main,it runs all the way down to
the east end where it rejoins the main, the track that rejoins the main in
front
of the depot was called the dining car track(A dining car laid over there
back in the good old days, it was removed in the early to mid 70s). The two
stub tracks that end west(north) of the depot are the house tracks. The tracks
coming off the Mt Morris main are the Carnation tracks to serve the canned
milk plant. The last track coming off is the river track going to downtown
Oregon.
Now to the right of the main is the passing track, then the stock track and
finally the CB&N that loops far to the south(west).
These names are based on my experience working the Oregon/Mt Morris job and
various wayfreights and thru frts that p/u and s/o there. Crews dont use the
engineering # designations for tracks but rather a name or number for each
track that has evolved over the decades. For example the CB&N,as it was
explained to me, got its name as that was the original track before
re-alingments.
The crews never referred to a yard at Oregon as this was a pretty typical
layout for station tracks for a town this size. Just a few tracks to serve a
few
industries and runaround a train. Oregon was a turning point for the Oregon
Turn w/f for a number of years and then in BN days the Stratford Turn
reversed direction here as it almost never went up to Stratford.
Most likely the steam engine was turned at Flag Center on the wye.
Leo Phillipp
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