page_title: Pomona (sternwheeler)
section_title: End of the Yellow Stack Line
hierarchical_section_title: Pomona (sternwheeler) / End of the Yellow Stack Line
caption_attribution_description: English: Advertisement placed by the Oregon City Transportation Company, known as the Yellow Stack Line, for the sale of its three steamers, Pomona, Grahamona, and Oregona, plus a towboat. Placed in Oregonian, August 3, 1919, page 48.
context_page_description: Pomona was a steamboat which operated on the Willamette, Columbia and Cowlitz rivers from 1898 to 1940. Pomona was specially designed to operate in low water conditions such as typically prevailed in the summer months in Oregon. Pomona was one of the few steamers that could regularly navigate to Corvallis, Oregon which was the practical head of navigation on the Willamette. In 1926, Pomona was substantially rebuilt, and served afterwards as a towboat. In 1940, Pomona was converted into an unpowered floating storehouse.
context_section_description: On Thursday, May 2, 1918, it was announced that the Oregon City Transportation Company would cease operations.  High costs and lack of business forced the business to close, which ended all steamboat service on the upper Willamette.  The company was also unable to complete with haulage of freight overland by trucks on highways.
  The company had been in business for 32 years.  The final trip of the line was to be made by the Grahamona, departing Portland on Saturday, May 4, 1918 and returning from Corvallis the following Monday.  Captain A.B. Graham would wrap up the company's affairs.  After the shut-down, Pomona and Oregona were laid up, while Grahamona was refitted for work on the upper Columbia.
caption: Advertisement for the sale of the O.C.T.C. boats, placed August 3, 1919 in the Oregonian newspaper.
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