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Located along the deep canyon of the Upper Sacramento River, Dunsmuir, Calif., was an important railroad depot, first for the Central Pacific, and later…
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Oregon has been steadily building ridership on Amtrak's "Cascadia Corridor" from Eugene north to Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, BC. But the population…
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Rogue Valley residents south of Medford have to get used to new sounds: the rumbles and horn blasts of freight trains. The Central Oregon and Pacific…
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As Ashland, Ore., became a railroad center after 1890, women seized on an unusual opportunity to prosper. Inexpensive vacant lots between the town and the…
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There's an old connection between trains and the holidays. Think of all the pictures you've seen of model trains running around Christmas trees. In the…
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The world of railroading has its extremes: speeding bullet trains overseas… and Medco number 4. Number 4 is a steam locomotive built in 1925 for use in…
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If the "Back to the Future" movies had been correct, we'd have flying cars by now. But we don't even have true high-speed trains in America… Amtrak's 150…
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What IS it about trains? They're just like big trucks and busses on steel rails… but the people who love them think of them as far more than that. And…
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The famous robbery-turned-murder outside Ashland may be Oregon's most famous railroad crime story, but there are others. Including the story of "Murder in…
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High-speed trains zoom across countries in Europe and Asia, but the United States is moving slowly toward fast trains (150 mph and faster). California's…