>I don't know the answer to that question either, but my family came to >oregon by way of ca and so i was also trying to find that out...trains >began to travel west in 1869 but i dont know when people actually >started to migrate by train... my people moved from MN to Ca and then N >to OR bef 1876.... My gggramma always spoke of the wagon trip as dusty >and hard and bumpy, but i do not know if they did the whole trip by >wagon... if you get info let me know, please... gloria In 1869 the only way from San Francisco to Sherman County was by ship then a series of riverboats or by wagon backwards on the Oregon Trail from Portland (or Seattle over Naches Pass). By 1890 they could have come from San Francisco to Portland by train (Southern Pacific) then to Sherman County by steamboat or train (Union Pacific). By 1912 they could have come from San Francisco to Klamath Falls on the Southern Pacific then to Sherman County on the Great Northern (or SP&S) through Bend and Wishram. jim