Watching a train go by in close proximity is one of the rewards of riding a bike around Albany. You can stand and watch close to the tracks at pedestrian crossings such as the ones at Burkhart or Pine streets.
An surprising sight greeted me on a bike ride Tuesday. Here, you can see for yourself:
Putting aside the perennial grumbling about noise and delays, we in Albany should be glad we still have functioning railroads to watch as they work, relieving highways of some of the burden of moving heavy freight.
If you’re reading this, you may be spending way too much time on this “mini roundabout” that a contractor for the city of Albany is building on Salem Avenue at Waverly Drive.
That, my friends, is no ordinary train engine you are looking at here.
There I was, riding my bike through the Willamette Neighborhood of east Albany just before 7 o’clock Friday evening. Then, for a while, I waited at the Burkhart Street pedestrian crossing of the Union Pacific and Portland & Western tracks.
Loss of rail bridge leads to complaint
Last week I got word of a development regarding the collapsed railroad bridge on the Marys River in Corvallis. So I went over there to take a look.
Tags: Bailrey Branch, bridge collapse, Marys River Bridge, Portland & Western, Railroads, Surface Transportation Board, Venell FArms, VFRC LLC