[4] In December 2007, CORP announced it was cutting shipments over the Siskiyou Pass south of Ashland, Oregon beginning January 15, 2008.

The completed 139 mi (224 km) branch line went from Eugene to Powers via the communities of Veneta, Noti, Swisshome, Mapleton, Cushman, Canary, Reedsport, Lakeside, Hauser, North Bend, Coos Bay, Coquille and Myrtle Point.

[8] According to a timetable dating 1920, four through-passenger trains and a local between North Bend and Myrtle Point made up passenger service in the line.

Until the late 20th century the branch carried 14,000 carloads per year of outbound lumber, plywood, woodchips, fiberboard, and paper with inbound LP gas and chemicals for the forest products mills.

"In 1994 SP sold the route to Railtex (later, RailAmerica), which operated it as part of" CORP.[10] On September 21, 2007, CORP elected to shut down most of the Coos Bay branch.

The suit claims that CORP failed to provide the required 180 days' notice that it would shut down a leased spur to the bay's North Spit.

[12] On November 21, 2008, the Surface Transportation Board ordered CORP to sell part of the branch to the Port of Coos Bay for $16.6 million.