Check out the progress that’s been made on Dean Ferris’ N scale Oregon Joint Line layout. […]
Oregon Joint Line updated layout tour
Zone & Region: Pacific Northwest
Oregon Joint Line updated layout tour
Check out the progress that’s been made on Dean Ferris’ N scale Oregon Joint Line layout. […]
Union Pacific still recovering from recent Northwest snow storms NEWSWIRE
SEATTLE — Union Pacific and Amtrak are both working to put their West Coast networks back together after a late-winter snowstorm severed its line between Eugene, Ore., and the California border and left a passenger train stranded for more than a day. UP officials said Thursday the line was back in operation. It would not […]
A llama riding light rail? Even in Portland, Ore., that’s against the rules NEWSWIRE
“Caesar the No-Drama Llama” meets a fan at the Oregon Convention Center light rail station. The animal’s trip aboard a light rail train was against the rules, officials subsequently confirmed. From Caesar The No-Drama Llama’s Facebook page PORTLAND, Ore. — In a city known for such oddities as a unicycle-riding, fire-breathing bagpiper, a llama riding […]
BNSF Columbia River bridge reopens after fire NEWSWIRE
PORTLAND, Ore. — BNSF Railway’s bridge across the Columbia River was reopened about 5:30 p.m. Pacific time on Tuesday, after a late-morning fire closed the bridge to all traffic, TV station KOIN reports. The Oregonian newspaper quoted a Portland Fire & Rescue spokesman as saying the fire was started by workers using acetylene torches on […]
Fire reported on BNSF Columbia River bridge NEWSWIRE
PORTLAND, Ore. – A fire is reported Tuesday afternoon on BNSF Railway’s former Spokane, Portland & Seattle bridge over the Columbia River connecting Portland with Vancouver, Wash. The bridge, which parallels Interstate 5, hosts Amtrak Cascades and Coast Starlight services, as well as BNSF and Union Pacific freight traffic. Trains News Wire will continue to […]
Dick’s Drive-In supporters outraged over proposed Sound Transit maintenance base NEWSWIRE
Kent, Wash. Google Maps KENT, Wash. — Is there a hamburger powerful enough to stop a train? The Puget Sound region’s rail-transit agency and fans of a local hamburger chain may find out. Sound Transit, the regional authority building and operating a light-rail system in Seattle and its suburbs, recently issued a list of six […]
Washington state set to carefully demolish highway above BNSF main line NEWSWIRE
SEATTLE — One of the biggest construction projects in the Pacific Northwest in recent years is actually a demolition job — the removal of a two-mile double-decker elevated highway slicing between downtown and the Elliott Bay waterfront. And slicing under that highway structure is one of the region’s most important rail lines. BNSF Railway’s main […]
Union Pacific freight train crossing Powder River
Here’s a quick clip of a Union Pacific mixed freight train crossing the Powder River in Natrona County, Wyo. Video submitted by Brian Olson. […]
Union Pacific freight train crossing Powder River
Here’s a quick clip of a Union Pacific mixed freight train crossing the Powder River in Natrona County, Wyo. Video submitted by Brian Olson. […]
Court: Washington coroner not entitled to BNSF cab video NEWSWIRE
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington state Supreme Court has ruled that the Pierce County, Wash., medical examiner isn’t entitled to a copy of a video recording made and held by BNSF Railway of a 2017 fatality in which a man standing on tracks was struck and killed. The ruling, filed Jan. 31, stems from a […]
Oregon legislator launches effort to extend Portland-area commuter rail line to state capital NEWSWIRE
A Wilsonville-bound Westside Express Service train passes through Tigard, Ore., in June 2018. An Oregon legislator wants the service extended to the state capital, Salem. TRAINS: David Lassen PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon legislator is making a fourth attempt to generate interest in a plan to extend Portland’s lone commuter-rail line to Salem, Ore. The […]
