Foothill Rails--Misc.--Oroville,CA
Oroville
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Oroville Depot
The Oroville depot and ATSF caboose #999582 can be found on Oliver St. Notice the WPRR logo on the wall.
Just across the street can be found an old passenger car turned business.
Nearby at Lincoln & Spur is ex SP caboose #1091.
Hewitt Park
Just across the tracks from the depot, Hewitt Park is home to Western Pacific #164 and
Feather River Ry shay #1.
WP Roundhouse Site
On the east side of Oroville yard once stood a huge Western Pacific roundhouse. Unforutunately,
it burned to the ground several years ago. Here you can see the site. Note the stall tracks still
visible.
SP And SN Enter Oroville
1. and 2. North and south views of the Southern Pacific Oroville branch at Ophir Road.
3. SP tracks just behind the old WP roundhouse site.
4. and 5. East and west views of the SN row into Oroville at Riverbend Park. The Sacramento
Northern crossed the Feather River here and the bridge abutments still stand.
Quartz, Old WP and Oroville Dam RR ROW
A multipurpose trail skirts the Thermolito Diversion Pool on what was once the old Western Pacific/
Oroville Dam RR right of way. Photo views start at Quartz and head east to just past an old tunnel.
The tunnel is the sight of a horrible head on crash suffered by the Oroville Dam RR. It is now lighted
for trail users. Last photo is looking back towards Quartz and the bridge crossing the pool on the
new alignment built to go around Lake Oroville.
Swayne Lumber Co ROW
A short portion of the Swayne Lumber Co right of way near the Oroville Dam has been cleared as a multipurpose trail.
This trail starts at the lower dam overlook on Oro Dam Blvd, photo 1. Photo 2 looks back across towards the dam. In the
trees on the far side of the parking lot may be a few more feet of right of way. Image 3 is part way up the trail at an
intersection with another trail. Photo 4 looks back towards the dam from this same spot.
Photo 5 picks up where photo 3 left off heading towards town. At location 6, the right of way leaves the trail and heads
through the brush. Image 7 looks back from this spot through a shallow cut. 8 continues on.
At image 9, the penstock comes into view. 10 and 11 are taken from atop the penstock with 10 looking towards town.
At this point the right of way becomes impassable. 11 looks back toward the dam. 12 and 13 are maps of this section.
The Oroville Freight Cars
The area surrounding the intersection of Hwy 70 with Ophir Rd and Pacific Hieghts Rd is a haven
for lost freight cars. Rails once crossed Hwy 70 here.
1. and 2. These two boxcars stand where there once was a scrap yard.
3. Nearby on Feather River Blvd is ex WP #20967.
4. PFE Reefer #460105 rests behind Bartel Welding. Noted off property 2011.
5. Granite Construction uses this old boxcar.
6-8. WP flatcar #2865 along with these 3 WP boxes rest in an open field nearby.
9. Compass Equipment owns no less than seven boxcars and reefers. One is ex UPFE.
10. There are two boxcars under this roof at the back of a scrap yard on Feather River Blvd.
11. This unknown boxcar sits behind the county diposal company.
12. WP boxcar #65109 is privately owned and located at the south end of Oroville yard.
13. Mathews Ready Mix has incorporated a boxcar into one of their structures.
See also my Sacramento Northern, Feather River Ry,
Oroville Dam RR and Swayne Lumber/Butte & Plumas rosters.
For more related photos check out my Feather River Ry Photo Page.
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