Bill Habjan, a retired doctor from Lebanon, Oregon, makes the 160-mile round trip to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland’s Central Eastside twice a week to work on an old engine. “When a steam ...

Kim Melten and his wife brought a new way to enjoy the outdoors to Oregon more than 10 years ago. They coupled their love of bikes and the outdoors into an accessible activity: rail riding. The ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (ARC PDX) — The Oregon Rail Heritage Center has been in its current home near OMSI for about a dozen years, and now the center is having some growing pains, partly of its own design.

WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced Tuesday that $42,712,400 in federal funding is coming to Oregon for five projects to improve railroad safety, efficiency, and ...

Jared Cassity, who is the National Safety Director for the nation’s largest rail union, SMART-TD, agreed that having more people trained to spot bridge problems is a good thing, but these inspectors ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The historic steam logging locomotive Mount Emily Shay #1 traveled by BNSF Railway on a flatcar from its former home on the City of Prineville Railway to its new home at the ...

NYSSA, Ore. — Oregon taxpayers are on the hook for a new rail station in the tiny town of Nyssa along the Idaho border, and the costs have been stacking up amid years of delays. The project is called ...

Twenty years ago, the Cascadia region from Eugene to Vancouver, B.C., was identified as one of 11 federally designated high-speed rail corridors. Since then, the Pacific Northwest corridor has ...

Over 100 years ago, the completion of a 105-mile railroad connected Spokane to rail lines across the country. While the tracks above the Monroe Street Bridge have long been demolished, a new plaque ...

State officials say Oregon will fall behind Washington in the push to build high-speed passenger railroads unless Oregon finds more stable funding. Washington received $590 million in federal stimulus ...