Talk:Salt Creek (Middle Fork Willamette River tributary)

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Did you know... that Salt Creek (pictured) is a freshwater stream in Oregon named for salt springs along its banks?

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Some research I did[edit]

Not really related to the creek, but about the area, so could be used in related articles:

The Pengra Pass rail route, part of the Cascade Line, was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1926 and was later sold to Union Pacific.^[1]^[2]^[3] The completion of the line linked the Willamette Valley to California via Klamath Falls, an alternate route to the Siskiyou Pass crossing into California.^[4]^[5] The route follows Salt Creek and Route 58 up the Cascade foothills, then crosses the creek on a trestle bridge and steeply ascends the canyon, staying south of the highway while climbing to Pengra Pass near Odell Lake.^[4]

more about the rail route & stuff in Park Service file

^ Hofsommer, Don L. (1986). The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985 (2009 ed.). College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. pp. 94–95. ISBN 1603441271.
^ McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 752. ISBN 978-0875952772.
^ "Union Pacific in Oregon" (PDF). Union Pacific Railroad. April 2013. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
^ ^a ^b Oregon (Map) (1993 ed.). 1:500,000. Cartography by Allan Cartography. Medford, Oregon: Raven Maps & Images. 1987. OCLC 41588689.
^ LaLande, Jeff. "Siskiyou Pass". The Oregon Encyclopedia. Portland State University. Retrieved February 9, 2014.

--Jsayre64 (talk) 01:21, 18 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Hofsommer, Don L. (1986). The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985 (2009 ed.). College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. pp. 94–95. ISBN 1603441271.

[2] McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 752. ISBN 978-0875952772.

[3] "Union Pacific in Oregon" (PDF). Union Pacific Railroad. April 2013. Retrieved February 8, 2014.

[bigmap-4] Oregon (Map) (1993 ed.). 1:500,000. Cartography by Allan Cartography. Medford, Oregon: Raven Maps & Images. 1987. OCLC 41588689.

[5] LaLande, Jeff. "Siskiyou Pass". The Oregon Encyclopedia. Portland State University. Retrieved February 9, 2014.

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