Let's Go to Mohler

Today, there is a railroad that runs from the Oregon coast to Portland. The predecessor to the Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad was a line built by the Pacific Railway and Navigation Company between 1906 and 1911. The line, whose reporting mark was "PR&N", was sometimes known as the "Punk, Rotten, and Nasty" because of the wet and muddy working conditions for crews building the railroad through the Coast Range. The line became the Tillamook Branch Line of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1916. The above information was taken from Wikipedia. That is everything that I could find out about the tracks on which the train on the front of this post card is travelling.

The title on the card says that it is near Mohler. I found out why some people would want to live in that area. I include it below. The first tidbit of information is from this website: http://www.smalltownoregon.com/01northcoast/mohler.html If you want to take a nature drive from the coast back to Portland take Highway 53 eastbound off Highway 101 at the Nehalem junction just north of Wheeler. Better take your Dramimine before you start. You will quickly come to Mohler, the last settlement until you reach Highway 26 at the Necanicum junction. We just about dismissed Mohler on the day we passed through, but the place had a winery and that caught our attention. The next thing you know they will have a Starbucks! As you can see from my pictures we took only a few. Needing some filler for my page I did some research and I am pleased that I did. The Mohler family in America dates back to the 1700's. The family icon made his first money producing wheelbarrows for the gold rush in California. After the rush died down he returned to the mid-west to continue his career as an industrialist and eventually developed the Studebaker automobile! The story is amazing and the Mohler family keeps a nice picture web site of the whole thing! This is more information about area as taken from this website: https://oregonwild.org/waters/protecting-oregons-waterways/nehalem-state-scenic-waterway The Nehalem River is one of the most impressive waterways in the Oregon Coast Range Mountains. It is one of Oregon's longest free-flowing (ie undammed) rivers. It has outstanding wildlife, recreational, and scenic values that make it a great place to visit, or call home. After a two year vetting process the Oregon State Parks and Water Resources Commissions both unanimously recommended the river be designated as a "State Scenic Waterway" by Governor Brown, which she signed in 2019. This designation will protect the river corridor, recreational opportunities, wildlife, private property rights, and scenic values.

The post card was printed by the Pacific Novelty Company with branches in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. This publishing company printed many postcards that were duplicates of postcards published by Edward Mitchell. Mitchell was a partner with other photographers in this publishing company; then, at some point, he bought the others out. A major publisher and printer of view-cards depicting California in halftone lithography. They produced cards in different styles, most of which were printed in Germany. They eventually sold off their own printing department to Herman Vogel who renamed it Quadricolor Press. Pacific Novelty went on to produce photochromes that were manufactured in the United States. They existed from 1908 to the 1960s.