Crescent Lake, Oregon (OR)

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Crescent Lake Junction is an unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States. It is situated 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northeast of Crescent Lake and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Odell Lake on Oregon Route 58, and is next to Crescent Lake State Airport. The zip code 97425, which includes Crescent Lake Junction, had a total population of 122 people in the year 2000[1]
The community was originally located along the Southern Pacific Railroad line, 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of its current site, and was known as Crescent Lake, Oregon. The former site was built after the completion of a section of railroad in 1923 (opened in 1926) called the Natron Cutoff, in the Cascade Range. This section superseded the route through the Siskiyou Mountains for trains traveling between the Willamette Valley and California. The community of Crescent Lake was built to service the steam trains that operated on the line until the 1950s and to maintain the track and signals over the adjacent section of the main line. Crescent Lake also served as a division meeting point where the operation of freight trains passed to fresh crews. Trains bound from Oregon to California were manned by crews from Eugene in the Willamette Valley up the "Hill" to Crescent Lake, where crews from Klamath Falls relieved them for the continuation of travel to Dunsmuir in northern California. Crews operating trains in the opposite direction were similarly relieved at Crescent Lake. Each of the relieved crews remained at Crescent Lake for a mandatory rest period, after which they relieved an arriving crew and returned to their respective home location. The site included a train depot, a roundhouse, a lodging facility for resting train crews which was known as the "Clubhouse", two general stores (one containing a tavern), a restaurant, a one-room schoolhouse, and a post office. The local railroad staff included a complete section gang (right-of-way maintainers), a signal maintainer, an electrician, a station agent and shift operators, a trainmaster, a yardmaster, and several other tradesmen. After World War II, the community began moving to its present site along Oregon Route 58, which had been completed a few years earlier in 1940. In 1958, the roundhouse was decommissioned and soon torn down, and in 1970 a fire in the restaurant destroyed the remaining businesses.[2][3] Much of the former site near the railroad is now a parking lot for winter recreation, though a few houses and a water tower remain.

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