Oregon Washington RR & Navigation Railroad Lantern Tall Embossed OW RR & N Globe

Description

Up for sale is an Oregon Washington Railroad & Navigation Company Railway lantern with embossed globe.  This is an old Handlan lantern with the "The Handlan" logo on top of the lantern.  The OWRR & N Co is stamped along the lip of the lantern.  There is some wear on the top and bottom of the lantern with some scuff marks and looks like some cleaning of the corrosion at one point.  See pictures for reference.  The globe is a tall, clear globe with OWRR&NCo in embossed lettering.  The globe is in good condition with no cracks and minor wear along the bottom edge.  A nice lantern and globe combo for a popular railway line.
I have other railroadania items and
obsolete brass and steel railroad and logo padlocks made by Corbin, Adlake, Slaymaker, Slaight of New Jersey, Sherburne, MM Buck, Miller Company, Fraim, Loeffelholz of Milwaukee, Union Brass Manufacturing of Chicago, Y&T, Yale, Wilson Bohannan, Adams & Westlake, Ritchie & Son, and Handlan.  I will combine shipping costs on multiple item winners.
The
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company
(OR&N) was a
railroad
that operated a rail network of 1,143 miles (1,839 km) running east from
Portland
,
Oregon
,
United States
, to northeastern Oregon, northeastern
Washington
, and northern
Idaho
. It operated from 1896 as a consolidation of several smaller railroads.
OR&N was initially operated as an independent carrier, but
Union Pacific
(UP) purchased a majority stake in the line in 1898.
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It became a
subsidiary
of UP titled the
Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company
in 1910.
[1]
In 1936, Union Pacific formally absorbed the system, which became UP's gateway to the
Pacific Northwest
.
The Oregon Railway and Navigation Company's purchase of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company in 1880 gave it a partial route on the south (Oregon) side of the Columbia River. The company then pursued expansion of its Columbia River route, surveying from where the Oregon Steam Navigation tracks ended at Celilo and continuing east to
Wallula
. By 1882 the route along the Columbia River was complete.
Starting in 1880, one of the competitors of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company was the
Shaver Transportation Company
.
The company purchased right-of-way in 1882 from
Alfred B. Meacham
and
John Harvey Meacham
, along their
Meacham Road
through the
Blue Mountains
.
[1]
The Meacham road, built in 1862, had a lower pass (4,185 feet (1,276 m)) than competing roads, and was a
corduroy road
, allowing it to hold up in poor weather conditions.
[1]
The railroad was laid in 1884.
[1]