• Rail transportation is an important element of the transportation network in the U.S. state of Oregon. Rail transportation has existed in Oregon in some...
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    since mid-2012 it resides at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center where it can be viewed by the public. OR&N No. 197 was built in May 1905 for pulling passenger...
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  • The history of rail in Oregon predates the transcontinental railroad in 1869. As Oregon was aligned with the union states during the American Civil War...
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    The Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation (ORHF) is a registered non-profit organization based in Portland, Oregon, United States. Composed of a partnership...
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    is a commuter rail line serving parts of the Portland metropolitan area's Washington and Clackamas counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. Owned by TriMet...
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    Pioneer (train) (category Passenger rail transportation in Oregon)
    passenger rail route to serve Wyoming, Southern Idaho, or Eastern Oregon. Rail advocates have been pushing for restoration of the Pioneer, though in 2021 Amtrak...
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    Coast Starlight (category Passenger rail transportation in Oregon)
    27, 2018. SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation. Cotey, Angela...
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  • Operations in Oregon" (PDF). Oregon Department of Transportation. January 12, 2011. Retrieved December 30, 2011. "Freight Rail System Map" (PDF). Oregon Department...
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    Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) is a light rail system serving the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon. Owned and operated by TriMet, it consists...
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  • The transportation system of Oregon is a cooperation of complex systems of infrastructure. The history of rail in Oregon predates the transcontinental...
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    Amtrak Cascades (category Passenger rail transportation in Oregon)
    connections to other destinations in British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington not on the rail corridor. In the fiscal year 2017, Cascades was...
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    Southern Pacific 4449 (category Rail transportation in Oregon)
    operated in excursion service since 1984. The locomotive's operations are now based at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, Oregon where it is...
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    Like transportation in the rest of the United States, the primary mode of local transportation in Portland, Oregon is the automobile. Metro, the metropolitan...
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    Phase". Oregon Department of Transportation. Retrieved June 7, 2020. Oregon Department of Transportation. "Bypass Opened January 6, 2018". Oregon Department...
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    Railroad line) connecting Eugene, Oregon, with Klamath Falls, Oregon. Construction of the line began in 1905 and was completed in the mid-1920s. Its name denotes...
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    The Oregon Rail Heritage Center (ORHC) is a railway museum in Portland, Oregon. Along with other rolling stock, the museum houses three steam locomotives...
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    Train Mountain Railroad (category Rail transportation in Oregon)
    near Chiloquin, Oregon, in Klamath County, which is in the south central region of Oregon. It is situated between Klamath Falls, Oregon, approximately...
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    TriMet rolling stock (category Passenger rail transportation in Oregon)
    metropolitan area in Oregon, owns and operates two different rail transit systems: a light rail system known as MAX, and a commuter rail system known as...
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    Pacific International (category Passenger rail transportation in Oregon)
    (1973). "Amtrak Revisited: The 1972 Amendments to the Rail Passenger Service Act" (PDF). Transportation Law Journal. 5: 143. Archived from the original (PDF)...
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    Chicago-Seattle rail passenger a free $170 plane ticket and two drinks than it is to operate the Hiawatha. US Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams, 1979 In January...
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    Rail transportation in the United States consists primarily of freight shipments along a well integrated network of standard gauge private freight railroads...
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    Spokane, Portland and Seattle 700 (category Rail transportation in Oregon)
    occasional excursion runs in 1990. In 2012, the 700 was moved to a new facility where it can again be viewed by the public, the Oregon Rail Heritage Center. No...
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    designated a high-speed rail corridor on October 20, 1992, as the one of five high-speed corridors in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of...
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    Willamette Valley (train) (category Passenger rail transportation in Oregon)
    was a passenger train operated by Amtrak between Portland, Oregon and Eugene, Oregon, in the early 1980s. The name came from the Willamette Valley region...
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    sections of Interstate 5 and 205, the Sunset Highway, Oregon Route 217, 47, 10, 6 and 8. Public transportation is primarily operated by TriMet and includes buses...
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    Washington Park and Zoo Railway (category Passenger rail transportation in Oregon)
    three stages in 1958, 1959 and 1960, it previously provided transportation between the Oregon Zoo, Hoyt Arboretum, International Rose Test Garden, and the...
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    Portland in 1869. This qualified the railroad for land grants in California, whereupon the name of the railroad soon changed to Oregon & California Rail Road...
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    Portland Streetcar (category Passenger rail transportation in Oregon)
    The Portland Streetcar is a streetcar system in Portland, Oregon, that opened in 2001 and serves areas surrounding downtown Portland. The 3.9-mile (6...
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    construction. In January 2007, Oregon Iron Works was awarded a $4 million contract to locally produce a streetcar prototype as provided by the Transportation Equity...
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  • Bombardier Transportation was a Canadian rolling stock and rail transport manufacturer, with headquarters in Toronto and Berlin. It was one of the world's...
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