Employes' residence at Orville, Oregon Electric Railway (1916). This photo is possibly misidentified, as the proximity of the house to the substation doesn’t match the photos below.
Overview of the Orville station complex in 1918, looking north. This photo is misidentified as East Independence in Edwin D. Culp’s “Stations West,” but that station had none of these facilities.
The Orville substation in 1925, looking south.
A January 1936 inventory of the line notes:
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Orville – M.P. 59.7
Concrete sub-station. Three family operators’ cottage. Poor condition. Hop warehouse 40 x 160. Fair condition. Tool house. Poor condition. Spur track, length 902 ft. 60#. Warehouse spur, length 400 ft. 60#.
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Authorization for Expenditure (AFE) E-2892, dated December 5, 1944, authorized the retirement of all eight substations on the Oregon Electric network — including Orville — in preparation for the total abandonment of electric traction on July 10, 1945.
All of the buildings that were once this site are no longer there, although the main spur track remains.