The Rogue River was a passenger train which ran between Portland, Oregon and Ashland operated by Southern Pacific.
Passenger service through Ashland began in 1887 with the completion of Southern Pacific's Siskiyou line.[1] When the Natron Cutoff was completed in 1926, local service over the Siskiyou Pass was maintained with a train operating between Portland and Ashland.[2] As Southern Pacific would go on to route most traffic over the new shorter cutoff, the local would remain as one of a few trains providing passenger service along the old route.[3] By the 1930s, the service had been named the Oregonian, with the northbound train connected to the West Coast at Eugene.[4] The trip was rechristened as the Rogue River by July 1938.[5] Southern Pacific announced the service would end in July 1955, though the Oregon Public Utilities Commission ordered that this be delayed pending public hearings.[6] Despite this, the final Rogue River runs occurred on August 6.[7]