Hinkle, Oregon
History
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Hinkle was a railway junction where a cutoff to Boardman rejoined the main line of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company that ran from Umatilla to Huntington. When the cutoff was built in 1915, a station was needed at the junction with the main line, and Joseph T. Hinkle, a prominent local attorney, newspaper editor and politician, sold the railroad a small amount of land for that purpose. The station was named in his honor. According to the compilers of Oregon Geographic Names, the community of Hinkle "languished in obscurity for a third of a century", until 1951, when the completion of the McNary Dam flooded the former route of the UP's line. When the tracks were relocated, UP built a major yard at the junction, expanding it beginning in 1976.
From 1977 until 1997, Hinkle was a passenger stop on Amtrak's Pioneer route; the station code was HIK. Hinkle was previously a stop on the UP's City of Portland route, with connections to Chicago. The station code used by train telegraphers and trainmen was UK.
See also
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hinkle, Oregon
- ^ McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 469–470. ISBN 978-0875952772.
- ^ Gaston, Joseph; George H. Himes (1912). The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912. Vol. 2. S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. pp. 473–474.
- ^ "Guiding Amtrak". The Register-Guard. May 31, 1977. Retrieved August 13, 2011.
- ^ "Hinkle-Hermiston, Oregon (HIK)". Trainweb. Retrieved August 13, 2011.
- ^ "Now New, Faster More Convenient Rail Service East on Union Pacific (advertisement)". Spokane Daily Chronicle. October 14, 1959. Retrieved August 13, 2011.
- ^ Associated Press (July 17, 1967). "Rail Walkout Spreads East". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved August 13, 2011.
External links
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- Images of Hinkle from Flickr