 By the early 1990s, the line was cut back to about 1.5 miles and today, this portion is used by the Portland and Western Railroad (PNWR) exclusively to store cars.The Southern Pacific lines were leased by the Portland and Western in the early 1990s and PNWR continues to run trains from Newberg through Saint Joseph to Corvallis.During President Franklin Roosevelt's administration, a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project had the federal government buying acreage in the Saint Joseph area for resettlement purposes.