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.
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. I 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?
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.
So how loud is that locomotive’s horn?
On a bike ride Wednesday, I finally managed to be at the Queen Avenue railroad crossing in Albany at the right time.
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