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The BNSF also operates a mainline in the Portland area which is a key rail link despite having only approximately ten miles of trackage in Oregon; this link crosses the Columbia River into Vancouver, connecting with the BNSF line heading north to Seattle, as well as the BNSF line heading east along the Washington side of the Columbia Gorge ...
Columbia Area Transit (CAT), officially the Hood River County Transportation District, is a public transit agency serving Hood River County, Oregon, United States. It operates local bus routes in Hood River , as well as commuter bus routes to Portland , The Dalles , and other nearby communities. [ 1 ]
The Oregon Portage Railroad was the first railroad in the U.S. state of Oregon. [2] It was located on the south bank of the Cascades canal of the Columbia River. [3]The railroad originally ran 4.5 miles (7.2 km) [4] [5] from Tanner Creek (near where Bonneville Dam was later built) to the Cascade Locks, which were under construction in the later years of the railroad's operation.
The Columbia River Gorge is a canyon of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Up to 4,000 feet (1,200 m) deep, the canyon stretches for over eighty miles (130 km) as the river winds westward through the Cascade Range, forming the boundary between the state of Washington to the north and Oregon to the south. [1]
Walla Walla and Columbia River Railroad: UP: 1868 1910 Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company: Walla Walla Valley Railway: WWV NP: 1910 1985 N/A Electric until 1949 Washington and Columbia River Railway: NP: 1892 1907 Northern Pacific Railway: Western Oregon Railroad: SP: 1879 1880 Oregon and California Railroad: WCTU Railway LLC: 1974 2013
The sternwheeler M.V. Columbia Gorge, built in 1983, was one of the first replica steamboats built for tourism purposes in Oregon. Since the early 1980s, several non-steam-powered sternwheel riverboats have been built and operated on major waterways in the U.S. state of Oregon, primarily the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, as river cruise ships used for tourism.