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Railroad picture of the day

Didn't get to see an Amtrak train moving around Union Station, but a Portland & Western freight is a good replacement

When I rode up to Kobos Coffee this afternoon, I reached Union Station at almost exactly the same time as this Portland & Western train cleared the south end of the platforms and started curving towards the Steel Bridge. This wasn’t the only train I saw today (I saw EPT1202 bringing a single reefer south towards the Milwaukie industrial park, and I saw a couple of Yellow Menace freights at a distance [one when I went into New Seasons later in the afternoon, one when I left New Seasons a while later]) but it’s not an example of a railroad that I see everyday, even though they do have trackage rights on the Yellow Menace mainline down to the junction with the Oswego branch.

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Do you really have freight lines running along major downtown streets, the way that looks?

Graydon Mon May 18 15:33:21 2009

No, not any more – there used to be some lines running down the streets, but they’ve been gone for a while. This train is coming across a street at a very steep angle (it’s ¾ths of the way through a turn from the station onto a bridge) so it just looks like it’s street-running.

David Parsons Mon May 18 20:10:44 2009

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