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A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Under construction: Truck/rail reloading hub

Written April 21st, 2021 by Hasso Hering

It was in 2017 that I wrote my first story about what seemed, at the time, an unlikely idea: To turn the vacant site of the demolished Millersburg paper mill into a multimodal reloading center that would connect the mid-valley to the world.


 
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