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MEMO

To: Interested Parties
From: Michele Bradley, General Manager
Date: 2/17/2009
Re: Decision on POTB Railroad

At a Special Board Meeting today [02/16/09], the Port of Tillamook Bay Commissioners made two decisions by motion during the public meeting. Both decisions were unanimous:

  1. To discontinue freight service from Cochran (railroad MP 802) into the Port of Tillamook Bay Industrial Park; and
  2. To not repair the POTB rail line between railroad mileposts 802-810 (Cochran to Enright).

Via http://www.potb.org/

After all, it’s not as if gasoline is expensive, Oregon’s in a depression, or running the railroad would take thousands of truck trips off the roads. Better to just scrap the railroad and let the entire damned region slide into poverty, made just a little bit more desperate by having to scramble for tourist dollars every summer.

*sigh*

—orc Thu Feb 19 20:15:29 2009

Comments

I don’t understand why rail can’t make money, given all the advantages.

Paul Tomblin Fri Feb 20 20:09:08 2009

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