Kim Melten and his wife brought a new way to enjoy the outdoors to Oregon more than 10 years ago. They coupled their love of bikes and the outdoors into an accessible activity: rail riding. The ...
City of Prineville Railway Director Matt Wiederholt is shown with a covered hopper car in the rail yard in Prineville on Monday. Matt Wiederholt remembers the boom days of the sawmills in Prineville.
TILLAMOOK Ore. (KPTV) - Every year, more than 40,000 people take a ride on the historic Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad, providing a unique view of our state’s coastline. However, a break-in and two ...
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Oregon — In this week's Let's Get Out There, we head to Washington County to check in on a new trail in the works to connect Banks and the coast. A railroad isn’t typically the best ...
The Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad introduces its new Halloween Coast Train, just in time for spooky season. During the final weekend of October, passengers can board a Halloween-themed historic train ...
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced Tuesday that $42,712,400 in federal funding is coming to Oregon for five projects to improve railroad safety, efficiency, and ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad says they are facing thousands of dollars in damage after a break-in and railroad tie thefts within a couple weeks. The Garibaldi-based train ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The historic Mount Emily Shay, a 100-year-old steam engine that once carried logs to lumber mills in Washington and LaGrande, Ore., pulled into its new home at the Oregon Rail ...
Twenty years ago, the Cascadia region from Eugene to Vancouver, B.C., was identified as one of 11 federally designated high-speed rail corridors. Since then, the Pacific Northwest corridor has ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (ARC PDX) — The Oregon Rail Heritage Center has been in its current home near OMSI for about a dozen years, and now the center is having some growing pains, partly of its own design.