For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Eugene Amtrak riders have reason to hope for “more rapid, more often and more on-time” service, Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy told a train station full of train enthusiasts Saturday. At the celebration of National Train Day, Piercy announced that she and Portland developer John Russell will preside over a high-level …
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With 5,000 people expected for the annual train show over the weekend, model train affection and devotion to Portland locomotive history were on vivid display.
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The impressive model train display at the Maine Mall transports holiday shoppers to memories near and far
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The moment I saw John Travolta walking to a Bee Gees' beat down a Brooklyn street, I began to take pop-culture dance seriously. Looking back, the movie is weak in the way all but the best dance movies are.
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BRUNSWICK Surrounded by train enthusiasts, state and local politicians and Federal Rail Authority Administrator Joseph Szabo, Pan Am Railways workers Monday removed old railroad ties and began laying the first of 50 1,650-foot sections of rail along the tracks near Maine Street.
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TriMet opened its first of three bike and ride facilities in the Portland area Thursday.
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TriMet General Manager Fred Hansen says it's way too early to say if the agency's heavy-rail gambit was a mistake. "If we weren't in the worst recession since the Great Depression," Hansen said, "I think it would be a different story."
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Portland, Oregon, is consistently ranked as one of the country's most livable cities (and it was a Fast City in 2007 ). And it continues to show solid growth despite having the second lowest per capita transit spending of the 28 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. A system of trains, streetcars, buses, and aerial trams give the city one of the most diverse transportation portfolios in the world. In ...
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Inspired Ethonomics: Portland, a Global Model of Transit-Oriented Development (Fast Company Magazine)
The substation for light rail near PSU will be able to generate electricity with solar and wind power and boasts unique architectural elements. The hope is that TriMet's south terminus will become a model for other cities interested in tapping renewable energy sources for public transportation projects.
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TriMet light-rail substation incorporates art, wind, sun (The Oregonian)