A Steam Train Wends Its Way from Newberg to Sherwood, Circa 1889. The engineering difficulties between Dundee and Portland were enormous. What Washington County settlers called "Chehalem Gap" was renamed "Rex Hill" by the builders: "Rex" because all the train wrecks that happened there! PHOTO COURTESY CRYSTAL RILEE FOUNDATION. ©clydeburger.org/ map/images/rilee00.jpg copyright
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