Street Runnin’ in Rainier

by Steve Eshom on December 14, 2009

As the recipient of branch lines shed by the Class I’s, Portland & Western inherited some of the Northwest’s most unique railroading situations.  They have tunnels, spindly wooden trestles, modern commuter rail, drawbridges, and street running all within a few hundred miles.  Today I visited Rainier, OR where I witnessed Portland & Western’s Wauna Turn thread its way through downtown streets on its way out to Avon to work USG Wallboard and the Teevin Brothers log yard.

Get out of the way!

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  • In Sebastopol, CA they used to have "The train down Main" but it is long gone and missed. Freight and passenger service is returning eventually, but not to that area.
  • I'll agree with Oliver, but have to say that's crazy. It bad enough we have LRT running through the downtown and every else; there's been a lot of accidents over the past twenty years. I'd just be a wreck of nerves running alongside locomotives that size.
  • oliver
    That series looks really great as it shows the railway embedded into the community.
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