While we’re on the subject of trains, let’s have brief look at one of the many freight trains rolling through different parts of Albany on most days.
Well, what do you know! The bike trap at the Queen Avenue railroad crossing has been eliminated. It’s smooth sailing now, or rather riding.
On a bike ride Wednesday, I finally managed to be at the Queen Avenue railroad crossing in Albany at the right time.
On Saturday afternoon, I was cruising through the parking lot of Albany Station when the Amtrak’s Coast Starlight just happened to pull into the station.
The Queen Avenue railroad crossing was the scene of another fatality Wednesday afternoon. IÂ learned about it on a bike ride when I found the crossing blocked by Amtrak 11, the train from Seattle to Los Angeles, about 5:30 p.m.
Back in 2023, the government was ready to spend $700,000 toward establishing a “quiet zone” at a railroad crossing just west of the city of Millersburg, on Millersburg Drive. What happened?
Short trip for a short train
On a bike ride through Albany’s Willamette Neighborhood on Thursday evening, I got to the Pine Street crossing about the same time as a Portland & Western train.
Tags: frain, Pine Street crossing, PNWR, PNWR 3546, Portland & Western, railroad