McMinnville

McMinnville is a small community of 25,000 residents located 35 miles southwest of Portland and 40 miles north of Corvallis.  Located on the Willamette & Pacific Railroad's Westside Line at milepost 734.9, it previously was Southern Pacific's Westside Line.  McMinnville was an important point during the years of the Red Electric interurban service (1914-1929), as it lied between St. Joesph and Whiteson.  St. Joesph was the junction between the Red Electric routes north to Forest Grove and northeast to Newberg and Tualatin; both of which rejoined at Fourth & Jefferson Streets in downtown Portland.  Whiteson was the junction with SP's Willamina Branch, serving the towns of Sheridan and Willamina.

Today, McMinnville maintains its Red Electric-era brick depot (W&P uses it as a crew office as well as offices for several management persons), several storage tracks, and the base of two through freights, a local, and a switcher.  McMinnville could also be considered the home of the wig-wag in Oregon, as there are three wig-wags protecting the W&P mainline through town.