Street Runnin’ in Rainier

    by Steve Eshom

    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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    3 Responses to “Street Runnin’ in Rainier”

    1. oliver says:

      That series looks really great as it shows the railway embedded into the community.

    2. Darryl says:

      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.

    3. Silliyak says:

      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.

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