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Railroad safety on Cox Creek Path

Written January 18th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

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This is something you don’t see all that often: Flaggers keeping an eye on traffic where Albany’s Cox Creek Path ducks under the Union Pacific mainline.

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Tags: Cox Creek path, Union Pacific

UP permit issue stalls new path

Written June 6th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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If you’re anxiously waiting for that new bike and walking path under the Pacific Boulevard overpass — and even if you’re not — you’re going to have to wait a while longer. Construction was to have started in May. But nothing’s going on at the site. The reason: The project apparently needs a permit from the […]

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Tags: Albany Station, ODOT, station path HP Civil Inc., Swanson Park, Union Pacific

No, the track’s not clear yet

Written May 24th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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So I’m sitting in a queue at the Queen Avenue crossing, one car back. Just when the switch engine looks like it’s about to clear the road so we can go, a Union Pacific freight barrels through on the track we can’t see, on its way south.

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Tags: Portland & Western, Queen Avenue crossing, Union Pacific

Life in a railroad town

Written April 30th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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Pity the poor people who do not live in railroad towns. They miss the fun of sitting at a crossing and watching a freight rumble past.

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Tags: Oregon Electric, PNWR, Portland & Western, Union Pacific

Progress on crucial Albany rail link

Written December 3rd, 2013 by Hasso Hering

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Passersby can see that work has resumed on the so-called Santiam Lead, a stretch of new railroad track parallel to the Union Pacific Mainline in Albany. High time, too. Under an agreement between the Portland & Western Railroad and ODOT-Rail, the project is supposed to be completed by Dec. 31.

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Tags: Albany railroads, ODOT-Rail, Portland & Western, Union Pacific

The wye? The answer!

Written May 8th, 2013 by

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How about a special passenger train carrying Portland-area fans to a Civil War football game in Corvallis? It’s just an idea, and here’s how it came up. On April 21, I posted a video wondering whether the Albany wye would be forever lost. That’s the Y-shaped rail junction on the Union Pacific mainline near Sixth […]

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Tags: Albany wye, Portland and Western, Santiam Lead, Union Pacific

Rail route: Keep it simple

Written January 25th, 2013 by

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A state committee working on plans for improved passenger rail between Eugene and Portland has been looking at different possibilities for a route that the trains of the future might take. You can’t say that they have not been thorough. It looks as as though they considered every possibility that somebody suggested. Keep in mind […]

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Tags: Oregon passenger rail, Union Pacific