Passenger train service in Albany will be interrupted Sunday while a contractor replaces the railroad bridge across Periwinkle Creek on the Union Pacific’s mainline.
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.
It has been a little while since the Union Pacific made an appearance on this site. Time to remedy that. Once again, on my usual bike ride Tuesday afternoon, I heard the sound of a locomotive’s horn. The sound was close and coming closer. I was on the east end of First Avenue when I […]
When a section of Queen Avenue was reopened this week after being torn up for utility work and then repaved, somebody complained in a comment here that the railroad crossing was still as bumpy as always.
Yes, there’s no shortage of trains on the Union Pacific’s western Oregon mainline. And if you move around Albany much at all, whether on four wheels or two, or on foot, trains and you are often going to cross paths.
At Periwinkle crossing, rail bridge replaced
As scheduled, a contractor’s crew replaced the Periwinkle Creek crossing on the Union Pacific Railroad’s mainline in Albany on Sunday.
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