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A nearly 75-year-old railroad bridge in Corvallis, Oregon, collapsed three years after a fire damaged it. Investigations ...
TILLAMOOK Ore. (KPTV) - Every year, more than 40,000 people take a ride on the historic Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad, providing a unique view of our state’s coastline. However, a break-in and ...
A new investigation finds railroad bridge safety across the U.S. is hamstrung by minimal government oversight and limited ...
Rail riding takes riders on an adventure along the tracks in places they have never seen before. There are now four rail riding locations across Oregon in Coquille, Joseph, Tillamook and Hood River.
The Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, Feb. 28, 2024. Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB But walking into the Oregon Rail Heritage Center is, for now, nothing like walking into a museum.
It’s a railroad that reaches back to the early days of settlement in Northeast Oregon, according to the railroad’s operations manager, Taylor Rush.
The Oregon Rail Heritage Center is a working rail museum in Portland, Oregon, that opened to the public on September 22, 2012. The museum houses three steam locomotives owned by the City of Portland.
That changed about 10 years later when the Oregon Trunk Line, the main railroad in Central Oregon now operated by BNSF Railway, bypassed Prineville, connecting instead to Redmond and Bend.
The Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad introduces its new Halloween Coast Train, just in time for spooky season. During the final weekend of October, passengers can board a Halloween-themed historic ...
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Oregon — In this week's Let's Get Out There, we head to Washington County to check in on a new trail in the works to connect Banks and the coast. A railroad isn’t typically ...
Oregon had 19 rail crossing accidents in 2018, up from 10 in 2013. And Marion County had the most among Oregon counties, logging 28 railroad crossing crashes since 2008, according to an analysis ...
SEATTLE (AP) — An Oregon county had substantial evidence when it denied Union Pacific Railroad's proposed track expansion along the Columbia River where an oil train derailed last year, a ...