In 1911 , the city had a railroad station , a roundhouse and associated railroad shops , a bank , a three-story hotel , other commercial establishments , and many homes . As many as eight trains were needed on weekends to carry beach-goers from the Willamette Valley to Yaquina City and the steamer '' Yaquina '' , which carried them across the bay to Newport . However , Newport and nearby Toledo , more accessible by highway , grew larger over time while Yaquina City shrank . By the beginning World War II , Toledo was the western terminus of the rail line , and the tracks from there to Yaquina City were removed . Roughly 20 years later , the former seaport 's population dropped to zero . Historian Edwin Culp writes : " Today one can drive along the bay from Newport to Toledo , pass through Yaquina City , and never know that such a town existed . " On August 21 , 2017 , Yaquina becomes the first place in the United States to witness totality of the solar eclipse
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Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017
Yaquina, Oregon