HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

No mystery, just storage

Written October 7th, 2013 by

As you might expect, the unexplained presence of a long line of brand new refrigerated railroad cars on a siding southeast of Albany has prompted rumors and a few jokes on the Internet, that fertile field for fueling phony theories of plots. I reported on sighting these cars on Sept. 19 after riding along Midway […]


What’s with these rail cars?

Written September 19th, 2013 by

Almost every ride through the mid-valley countryside makes me ask this question: What the heck is that? Take Thursday, for example. On this brilliant late-summer afternoon I’m pedaling my two-year old Giant Rincon mountain bike along Midway Road. The road parallels the track of the Albany & Eastern Railroad. And on a siding next to the […]


 
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