A nearly 75-year-old railroad bridge in Corvallis, Oregon, collapsed three years after a fire damaged it. Investigations ...

A new investigation finds railroad bridge safety across the U.S. is hamstrung by minimal government oversight and limited ...

That time arrived on Jan. 4, 2025, when the Corvallis bridge collapsed beneath a freight train. One railcar fell into the ...

The Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, Feb. 28, 2024. Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB But walking into the Oregon Rail Heritage Center is, for now, nothing like walking into a museum.

Rail riding takes riders on an adventure along the tracks in places they have never seen before. There are now four rail riding locations across Oregon in Coquille, Joseph, Tillamook and Hood River.

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.

Oregon Rail Heritage Center President Rick Franklin said that the locomotive will now serve the people of Portland. Click here to read more about the Mount Emily Shay’s rich history.

The Amtrak Cascades line is Oregon’s only state-supported rail service, and it is also the most traveled. In the fiscal year 24, the train saw nearly a million (approximately 941,727) riders.

These improvements are nothing to sneeze at. But for commuters who think high-speed rail should be, well, high speed, the kind of 140 mile-per-hour plus system that would get business executives, ...

The Rail Ridge Fire in central Oregon has set over 61,000 acres ablaze and is 0% contained. The wildfire was discovered on September 2, according to USA TODAY's data. It's located in Dayville ...

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.

December 2007’s massive storm decimated the Port of Tillamook Bay railroad. Repairs are estimated between $30 million and $50 million. Port officials and members of the governor’s office and ODOT have ...