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.
If you approach the rail crossing on Queen Avenue from the east, beware of the trap they’ve left for people on bikes.
Now that the job of clearing a big pile of river debris is complete, let’s take one more look at the Albany railroad bridge where the work was done.
For years the Willamette River logjam on the Albany railroad bridge had grown every winter. On Tuesday it was being dismantled.
Watching railroads work, where we still can
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.
Tags: Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad, CORP, Railroads, Siskiyou line, Weed to Ashland