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Interstate Bridge looking north from Oregon, 1917 Postcard showing streetcar tracks, period autos. Before a permanent crossing existed between Portland and Vancouver, there was an overcrowded ferry system operated by Pacific Railway, Light & Power Co.
The route of the Cascades generally runs parallel to I-5 within Washington state. I-5 enters Washington on the Interstate Bridge, a pair of vertical-lift bridges that span the Columbia River between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. The bridge is the only point on I-5 where vehicles have to stop for cross traffic, because of the ...
The 1908 opening of the Columbia River bridge completed the all-rail route ("Prairie Line") between Seattle and Portland, eliminating the need for the ferry crossing at Kalama. [10]: 12 [12] By August 1909, the NP ran four daily round trips between Portland and Seattle.
Rail bridge Canadian Pacific Railway: Donald, British Columbia: Donald ferry: Donald highway bridge: Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) Kicking Horse Drive Bridge: Kicking Horse Drive Golden, British Columbia: Canyon Creek Bridge: Nicholson, British Columbia: Parson bridge: Parson River Crossing Road Parson, British Columbia: Parson ferry ...
The corridor continued to grow, with another Portland–Seattle train arriving in 2006, and the long-awaited through service between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Portland, eliminating the need to transfer in Seattle, beginning on August 19, 2009 [27] as a pilot project to determine whether a train permanently operating on the route would be ...
Before there was a railroad bridge between Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington, Goble was the site of an important train ferry. [6] The Northern Pacific Railroad had built a railroad on the Oregon side of the Columbia River to Goble. [6] In the 1880s, the company bought the second largest ferry in the world and shipped it to Oregon. [6]
Scholl settled in the area in 1848, and began operating the ferry in 1850, along what was then the main route between Portland and the upper portions of the Willamette Valley. [12] In the late 1850s, Scholl built a covered toll bridge across the river, but it was washed away in a flood. [12]
Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge 9.6 (BNSF Bridge 9.6) 1908: Swing bridge, Pratt truss: 2,807 feet (856 m) Columbia River: BNSF Railway: Interstate Bridge (Portland–Vancouver Highway Bridge) 1917* (and second, parallel bridge in 1958) Truss with lift span