
When you’re standing on Albany’s Third Avenue watching a slow freight train go by, as I did on Saturday, you may not realize you’re looking at a tiny part of a huge business enterprise that spans the globe.
Tags: Brookfield Infrastructure, Genesee & Wyoming, GIC, Portland & Western, shortline railroads, Singapore, Willamette & Pacific
On the river: Check that pile of debris
Every winter, or so it seems, logs and other debris drifting down the Willamette River pile up against a pier of the Albany railroad bridge. It looks like trouble, but at this point it worries neither the railroad nor the Oregon State Marine Board.
Tags: debris pile, Genesee & Wyoming, log pile, Oregon Marine Board, PNWR, Portland & Western, railroad bridge, Willamette River