Roughly between Baker and Prairie City starting near the McEwen station site and W to the Dixie Pass area, Sumpter, Oregon. County/parish: Baker.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 03, 1987. NRIS 87001065.
8 contributing sites. 27 contributing structures.
The Sumpter Valley Railway, or Sumpter Valley Railroad, is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge heritage railroad located in Baker County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Built on a right-of-way used by the original railway of the same name, it carries excursion trains on a roughly 5-mile (8.0 km) route between McEwen and Sumpter. The railroad has two steam locomotives and several other pieces of rolling stock. Passenger excursion trains operate on weekends and holidays from Memorial Day through the end of September.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77848647