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Oregon and Trunk
Electrification and the Oregon Trunk Railway reached Redmond in 1911.
* BNSF Railway ( formerly Oregon Trunk Railway )
In February 1911 the Oregon Trunk Railroad decided to build a depot, turntable and roundhouse in the town.
In 1912 the unincorporated town was then known as Fallbridge, named in recognition of the southern extension of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, which crossed the Columbia on the Oregon Trunk Rail Bridge constructed on the basalt rock of Celilo Falls.
This bridge over Celilo Falls became known as the Oregon Trunk Rail Bridge or the fallbridge.
This southern extension relied upon the Oregon Trunk Rail Bridge-the " fall bridge "-constructed just downstream of Wishram at the waterfall on the Columbia.
At the end of 1967 SP & S operated 922 route-miles ( including Oregon Electric and Oregon Trunk ); that year it reported 2718 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 29 million passenger-miles.
A third route on which the SP & S operated extended southward from Wishram, Washington to Bend, Oregon was the Oregon Trunk Railroad.
In the end, the railroad opened using mostly the track of the Oregon Trunk, with a short portion of the Oregon & Washington Railway & Navigation Company track, and both railroads used the route ( an arrangement which exists to this day with BNSF owning the majority of the line and UP having trackage rights.
There, Stevens was working for his old Great Northern boss, James J. Hill, on constructing the Oregon Trunk from the Pacific Northwest into northern California.
This route, composed of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle, the Oregon Trunk Railway, the Western Pacific Railroad, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, was finally pieced together in the 1930s.
Modern Native American long house # Northwest Coast longhouses | Native American Longhouse in Celilo Village with the Columbia River and Oregon Trunk Rail Bridge in the background

Oregon and Rail
Rail service is provided by Union Pacific Railroad, and connects with the main line to Portland, Oregon ; Rock Island, Illinois ; Tucumcari, New Mexico ; St. Louis, Missouri ; and New Orleans, Louisiana.
However, after the death of Jay Gould and some years later, the plans for the Union Pacific to gain access to the Puget Sound Region were revived, under the new name of the Oregon & Washington Rail Road, later changed to the Oregon & Washington Railroad & Navigation Company.
* MAX Light Rail ( an acronym for Metropolitan Area Express ), a light rail system serving the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area
* MAX Light Rail, a light rail system in Portland, Oregon
Subsequently, UP took over three Mormon-built roads: the Utah Central Rail Road extending south from Ogden, Utah, to Salt Lake City, the Utah Southern Railroad extending south from Salt Lake City into the Utah Valley, and the Utah Northern Railroad extending north from Ogden into Idaho ; and it built or absorbed local lines that gave it access to Denver and to Portland, Oregon, and the Pacific Northwest.
Category: Rail transportation in Oregon
C-TRAN also provides express commuter services between Clark County and various points in Portland, Oregon, including downtown, Parkrose-Sumner and Delta Park MAX Light Rail stations ( in northeast and north Portland ), Lloyd District, and Oregon Health and Science University.
This qualified the Railroad for land grants in California, whereupon the name of the railroad soon changed to Oregon & California Rail Road Company.
Although no longer at Oaks Park, the three locomotives all remain in Portland, and since 2012 they are residing at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center.
Participants carry their bikes on MAX Light Rail to the Washington Park station next to the Oregon Zoo.
* Oregon and California Rail Road ( 2 cars ); to Southern Pacific
The MAX Blue Line is a 33 mile ( 53 km ) light rail line in the MAX Light Rail system in the Portland metropolitan area in the U. S. state of Oregon.
Category: Rail lines in Oregon
Category: Rail lines in Oregon
As mayor, Clark created the nationally recognized 12-Point Homeless Plan, supported the growth of mass transit, including the MAX Light Rail line to Gresham, Oregon, aided downtown development, and initiated and led the campaign to build the Oregon Convention Center.
Category: Rail lines in Oregon
Hollywood / Northeast 42nd Avenue Transit Center station is a light rail station in the MAX Light Rail system and is located in the Hollywood District of Portland, Oregon.

Oregon and Bridge
* Hawthorne Bridge, Portland, Oregon
* The Fremont Bridge ( Portland ), in Portland, Oregon
It crosses the Chetco River at Brookings, the Rogue River in Gold Beach, the Coquille River just north of Bandon, Coos Bay at North Bend via the McCullough Bridge, named after the engineer who designed a series of bridges built on the Oregon Coast in the 1930s, the Umpqua at Reedsport, the Siuslaw in Florence, Yaquina Bay at Newport, and the Columbia River by Astoria.
There are also many scenic bridges along the Oregon Coast that carry U. S. 101, such as the Yaquina Bay Bridge in Newport, Oregon.
Portland, Oregon also has several other locations named after Frémont, such as Fremont Bridge.
The Conde McCullough Memorial Bridge in North Bend, Oregon as seen from the east.
Cottage Grove is known as the " Covered Bridge Capital of Oregon " with six covered bridges near the city.
Sheridan Bridge ( Oregon ) | Sheridan Bridge over the South Yamhill River
The first egg was built for a celebration of the opening of the Pacific Highway Bridge over the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon.
From Oxbow Bridge near Copperfield, Oregon, Hells Canyon Road follows the Idaho side of the river downstream to the Hells Canyon Dam.
* 00S, McKenzie Bridge State Airport in Oregon
The Central Loop ( CL ) Line, which opened September 22, 2012, runs from Downtown to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry via the Pearl District, the Broadway Bridge across Willamette River, the Lloyd District, and Central Eastside Industrial District.
The modern skatepark designs of the Pacific Northwest can be traced back to Burnside Skatepark, a DIY " barge build " beneath the Burnside Bridge in Portland, Oregon.
The Steel Bridge is a through truss, double lift bridge across the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States.
In the spring of 1865 raids continued along the Oregon trail in Nebraska and the Sioux, the Northern Cheyenne, the Northern Arapaho together with the warriors who had come north after the Sand Creek massacre raided the Oregon Trail along the North Platte River, and in July 1865 attacked the troops stationed at the bridge across the North Platte at the present site of Casper, Wyoming, the Battle of the Platte Bridge Station.
The St. Johns Bridge is a steel suspension bridge that spans the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, USA, between the St. Johns neighborhood and the northwest industrial area around Linnton.
In summer 1987, General Motors filmed the introductory commercial for the 1988 Buick Regal in Portland, Oregon and vicinity, including the St. John's bridge, the Astoria-Megler Bridge, and on the Columbia Gorge.
The Hawthorne Bridge is a truss bridge with a vertical lift that spans the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, joining Hawthorne Boulevard and Madison Street.
File: Hawthorne Bridge pan-Portland, Oregon. jpg | Panoramic view from south and west

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