Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rail riding takes riders on an adventure along the tracks in places they have never seen before. There are now four rail riding ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The historic Mount Emily Shay, a 100-year-old steam engine that once carried logs to lumber mills in Washington and LaGrande, Ore., pulled into its new home at the Oregon Rail ...

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 ...

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon lawmakers are aiming to emerge from the current legislative session with a major new transportation package in tow, one that will hopefully address the Oregon Department of ...

Soaring trestles. Dark, spooky tunnels. A dense forest, and a pair of spectacular rivers. The Salmonberry Trail could one day become a long-distance path unlike anything hikers in Oregon have ever ...

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 ...

Passenger rail “is always going to lag and struggle unless we want to put in dedicated resources,” says ODOT rail division chief. Oregon Amtrak service was on an upward growth trajectory until ...

Santiam Excursion Trains is based in Lebanon and recently added a new railbike adventure in Sweet Home. The 6-mile Sweet Home Branch line railbike tour offers scenic views, glimpses of abandoned ...

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 ...