Columbia River and Oregon Central Railroad

The Columbia River and Oregon Central Railroad built a branch of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company in north central Oregon, running south from that company's main line at Arlington, on the Columbia River, to Condon. The company was incorporated on August 22, 1903, and finished construction in 1905. An earlier firm, the Oregon Southern Railway, had made surveys and bought right-of-way but never began building. The railroad was always operated by the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, and on December 23, 1910 its property was sold together with that company's to the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company, a new subsidiary of the Union Pacific. The Condon, Kinzua and Southern Railroad later carried the route on from Condon to Kinzua in 1929. In 1992 the Interstate Commerce Commission allowed the Union Pacific to abandon the line south of Gilliam, and the remainder was leased in 2003 to the shortline Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad.