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I can say from personal experience that a slice of white bread issued from an SP vending machine for DIY toast in a toaster where impatient customers have messed with the setting cannot be compared with anything else.

Thruway to Bend serves both Portland Union Station and Portland International Airport.

This report may be overdone, but it fits the way that Soviet railways were run in Stalin's time. Accidents were attributed to sabotage, not to Precision Scheduling. Some division superintendents were shot...

This came up a while ago. Portland is listed with 23 departures, which it has shown since last year, before additional Cascades were added. Portland International Airport shows 2 departures. Seattle and Tacoma do not show this info. I suspect that it was a test, and someone forgot to clean...

When the bus concourse opened in 2013, we had it set up so that it could be closed for a couple of hours in the night. This allowed for thorough cleaning and prevented move-ins. There were few problems. Two subsequent changes resulted in the bus concourse being open 24 hours: 1.) swapping...

Here's how ridership looked in April - MAY - June 1978, from Rail Transit News issue 178.

A discussion of the proposition as of 24 July 2024.

I second the motion. One of the reasons that the Portland section of the Builder was added was because a particular Amtrak employee in DC understood that a Pasco <> Portland link would create a schedule path into California. Before that, they kept dismissing endpoint Portland. In 1973, Amtrak...

I pulled out the October 1944 Guide and there were Pennsy trains on the Belvidere branch stopping in Lambertville, across a bridge from New Hope. New Hope also was served by the Reading but that was oriented toward Philadelphia. Having grown up with so much service, he probably stuck with rail...

Yeah, if it's set up as a through train, every time there's a blizzard in Chicago, trains will be held in Miami. If there's a hurricane watch, trains will be held in Chicago.

There are still some WWII and Cold War projects being finished, such as completely rebuilding Ostkreuz or replacing the bridge at Küstrin/Kostrzyn. I suspect that routine work had been put off for too long. 2012 - Ostkreuz replacements and renovation began. Work that should have been done in...

Welcome! You have lots of possibilities in Portland, compared to some other North American cities if you include visits to some of the smaller cities. There are videos of them linked in this website. You may want to join AORTA, too. It advocates for Oregon rail and transit users...

Since I've been using a cane while traveling, I've had no problems. I use a walking stick on Denver buses and rail transit and always have had good experiences. On the other hand, I look elderly, so do not appear threatening. If you're fit enough to walk the GG Bridge, someone might...

That's why the original UP and Santa Fe streamliners could be successful. They were on less than daily "sailings" -- but were backed up by daily trains on the same routes.

Love those grey skies in the second video! As an Oregonian it looked like home, until traffic passed on the "wrong side" of the road.

That sort of thing has happened in several parts of Europe; it rarely gets reported in U.S. media. However, the methods and effects are so well-known over there that it could be any small group, state, state-sponsored, or self-starting...

Weather in the Canadian prairies doesn't usually get snowy till after Armistice Day. In the eight winters that I lived in Edmonton, it snowed in October that stuck once. Traffic was in chaos because motorists were not prepared for it. After that....

Back when Amtrak ran through MKE<>STL service they included ex-GN parlor-lounge observation cars "Port of Seattle" and "Port of Vancouver."

The scale model passengers in that last car got a thrill on the curves.

I agree with Granby. If a wild delay occurred westbound, it's most likely to be known in time for you to either scrap the trip or turn back at Fraser-Winter Park. Granby has a rail museum, but you might not have time to visit it. https://moffatroadrailroadmuseum.org/