# Metolius station

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**Metolius station**, also known as the **Oregon Trunk Passenger and Freight Station** is a historic railway station located on Washington Street at the foot of Sixth Street in [Metolius, Oregon](/source/Metolius,_Oregon). The station was built in 1911 to serve passenger and freight traffic along the [Oregon Trunk Railway](/source/Oregon_Trunk_Railway), which provided a railway connection for towns in central Oregon. The station building has a [Stick Style](/source/Stick_Style) design and was built to a standard station plan used by the line. As the railroad entered a canyon on the [Deschutes River](/source/Deschutes_River_(Oregon)) near Metolius, it became an important station on the line, as its railway yard housed the [pusher locomotives](/source/Pusher_locomotive) needed to help trains out of the canyon. The railway opened up previously inaccessible land to [homesteaders](/source/Homestead_Acts); some of these homesteaders settled in the Metolius area, while others traveled further down the line to [Redmond](/source/Redmond,_Oregon) and [Bend](/source/Bend,_Oregon). The station closed in 1983; by then it served the [Burlington Northern Railroad](/source/Burlington_Northern_Railroad), which sold the building to the city of Metolius the next year.[2]

The station was listed on the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places) on February 27, 1986.[1]

## See also

- [National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Oregon](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Jefferson_County,_Oregon)

## References

1. Clark, R. Keith & Morrison, Ginger (March 1985). ["National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Oregon Trunk Railway Passenger and Freight Station"](https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/0ab51e8f-27da-43aa-97f5-17cfdff1aebe). [National Park Service](/source/National_Park_Service). Retrieved December 2, 2017. [Accompanied by photos](https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/10817df1-68ad-40f8-80d3-d1d16411d889/).

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