Portland Transport

Category: Inter-City Rail

  • Dilapidated?

    That’s what Friday’s Trib called Union Station. Apparently our “Go By Train” landmark is in need of $40-50M of work. PDC owns the station, and apparently there is some discussion of getting it into an urban renewal district when the downtown districts are reconfigured in a few years. The assumed eventual replacement of the Post…

  • Hanging Our Heads in Shame Over the State of Rail

    It’s all about expectations. A great perspective from Adron over at Transit Sleuth.

  • Reader Calls for Gorge Train

    This comment showed up on our discussion of a possible Wine Train: I live in Mt Hood, Oregon and would like to work with folks interested in getting rail transport between Hood River (maybe also the Dalles) and Portland, who is working on this? How can I help? It seems that a total overhaul of…