Oregon Rail Heritage Center Tour - Portland, Oregon - August 22, 2015
This is a tour of the Oregon Rail Heritage Center this engine house is where they preserve and restore historic locomotives. On display is only 1 of 2 remaining Nickel Plate Road 190 wonderful to visit to see these engines close up and in various stages of being brought back to life.
The Oregon Rail Heritage Center | Portland, Oregon
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Oregon Rail Heritage Center Grand opening Sept. 22, 2012 SP 4449 SP&S 700 OR&N 197
Oregon Rail heritage Center grand opening of their new Doyle L McCormack Enginehouse. open for visitors to see the Southern Pacific engine 4449. Spokane, Portland & Seattle engine 700. Oregon Rail& Navigation engine 197 Grand opening Sept.22,2012
Oregon Rail Heritage, Portland Train Museum Tour
Massive iron steam locomotives being rebuilt and on display at Portland's new train museum on the water front near OMSI. We found some old diesel locomotives and classic coach cars out back
Oregon Rail Heritage Center
The Oregon Rail Heritage Center is a railway museum in Portland, Oregon. Along with other rolling stock, the museum houses three steam locomotives owned by the City of Portland: Southern Pacific 4449, Spokane, Portland & Seattle 700, and Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. 197, the first two of which are restored and operable. The center opened to the public on September 22, 2012. The project to establish the center was led by the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation, a non-profit organization established in 2002.
ORHF was tasked with finding a new home for the three city-owned locomotives, after planned changes by Union Pacific Railroad made it apparent that the locomotives would need to be moved out of their longtime home in the UP's Brooklyn Roundhouse, a 1941-built roundhouse in Southeast Portland's Brooklyn neighborhood. ORHF comprises several entities, including railway preservation and railfan groups as well as the city's Bureau of Parks & Recreation.
Proposals to construct a new enginehouse to house the historic locomotives were expanded to encompass a visitor center and eventually an interpretive center. After considering other potential sites for an enginehouse, ORHF reached agreement in 2009 on a site near the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, encompassing about 3 acres.
Ground-breaking for the 20,000-square-foot enginehouse took place in October 2011. The three steam locomotives were moved to the site from the Brooklyn Roundhouse on June 26, 2012, and were temporarily placed outdoors, awaiting completion of the enginehouse. With the house fully enclosed, the locomotives were moved inside on July 28. Several vintage rail passenger coaches have also been moved to the site from the Brooklyn Yard, where they had been outdoors, and they will continue to be kept outdoors at the new center. The budget for the initial phase of construction is $5.9 million, and funding has come mainly from donations, but with the City of Portland loaning $1 million. The Brooklyn Roundhouse was demolished in early September 2012, but its turntable was removed and placed in storage, and ORHF plans to install it at the new center in a later phase.
The Oregon Rail Heritage Center opened to the public on September 22, 2012. It is open for visitors Thursday through Sunday, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and for the time being, admission is free.
The centerpieces of ORHC's collection are the three steam locomotives: Southern Pacific 4449, Spokane, Portland & Seattle 700, and Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. 197. All were donated to the City of Portland in 1958 and were on static display at Oaks Amusement Park until the mid-1970s or later. No. 4449 was moved to the Burlington Northern Hoyt Street Roundhouse in 1974 for restoration and proceeded to become famous nationwide, when it hauled the American Freedom Train throughout the country during the United States Bicentennial celebrations of 1975–76. It was thereafter stored and maintained at the Brooklyn Roundhouse between excursions. SP&S 700 moved to the roundhouse from Oaks Park in 1986, and OR&N 197 followed in 1996. SP&S 700 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Several pieces of privately owned rolling stock also reside at the new center, including a diesel switcher, other locomotives and several vintage passenger and freight cars. One of the locomotives is Nickel Plate Road 190.
Public facilities at the new enginehouse are expected to be minimal initially, consisting of a few exhibits and an area where restoration work on the locomotives and other equipment can be observed, but ORHF plans to install a full interpretive center later, on the building's second floor.
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UP #1989 Visits Portland Oregon!!! March 9 2018
This is the second time that I caught a heritage unit this year!
UP #1989 came from Hinkle, OR this afternoon.
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Triple Oregon Train Ride
In the summer of 2014 Pacific Rails Productions visited three different train rides within the state of Oregon. First stop was the Sumpter Valley Railroad, located about 24 miles west of Baker City, that takes passengers through late-1800s gold dredging operations on its way to the old mining town of Sumpter. Next stop was the Oregon Pacific Railroad in Portland and its short excursion along the Willamette River and through a wildlife refuge between the Oregon Rail Heritage Center and Oaks Amusement Park. Last stop was a revisit to the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad for a trip along Tillamook Bay from Rockaway Beach back to Garibaldi. It's a jam-packed trip featuring music from the popular PC game Railroad Tycoon 3. All Aboard!
Oregon Rail Heritage Center steam engines
The centerpieces of ORHC's collection are the three steam locomotives: Southern Pacific 4449, Spokane, Portland & Seattle 700, and Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. 197. All were donated to the City of Portland in 1958 and were on static display at Oaks Amusement Park until the mid-1970s[11] or later. No. 4449 was moved to the Burlington Northern Hoyt Street Roundhouse in 1974 for restoration and proceeded to become famous nationwide, when it hauled the American Freedom Train throughout the country during the United States Bicentennial celebrations of 1975–76.[2][12] It was thereafter stored and maintained at the Brooklyn Roundhouse between excursions. SP&S 700 moved to the roundhouse from Oaks Park in 1986, and OR&N 197 followed in 1996.[2] SP&S 700 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[13]
Union Pacific diesel switcher locomotive No. 96 was added to the collection in 2016, donated to ORHF by UP.[14] It is an SW10-class locomotive, built originally as an SW7 in 1950 by Electro-Motive Diesel (and originally numbered 1821) and rebuilt by as an SW10 by UP in 1982. It arrived at the ORHC in 2017.
Several pieces of privately owned rolling stock also reside at the new center, including another diesel switcher, other locomotives and several vintage passenger and freight cars.[8] One of the locomotives is Nickel Plate Road 190.
Public facilities at the new enginehouse are expected to be minimal initially, consisting of a few exhibits and an area where restoration work on the locomotives and other equipment can be observed, but ORHF plans to install a full interpretive center later,[15] on the building's second floor.[8]
The operational steam locomotives are occasionally used on excursion trips, including an annual Holiday Express,[12] and the new enginehouse was sited and designed in such a way as to enable these trips to continue. Union Pacific Railroad's north–south main line runs past the building, and is connected to the Heritage Center's tracks, allowing the locomotives and other rail cars to be moved onto or off of the mainline tracks. The rail cars also have access to Oregon Pacific Railroad (OPR) tracks at the new location.
All Aboard ORHF
Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation's mission is to build a new home for Portland's three steam locomotives.
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Railfanning Portland OR 4-15-17
Here is where you will find trains at Oregon Rail Heritage Center & at a railroad crossing.
Trains:
1.#124 Leading,#212 Trailing to Expo Center
2.#100 Leading to Oaks Park
3.#314 Leading,#235 Trailing to Milwaukie
4.#421 Leading,#530 Trailing to Milwaukie
5.#100 Leading to Oaks Park
6.#249 Leading,#244 Trailing to Expo Center
7.#212 Leading,#124 Trailing to Milwaukie
8.#530 Leading,#421 Trailing to Expo Center
9.#83 Leading,#18 Trailing the Coast Starlight to Los Angeles
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High Elegance in Portland Oregon - Great Oregon Steam Up Part 1
Arriving in Portland we check into The Benson Hotel and visit the Pittock Home to experience the elegance that was and still is Portland. And a quick look at the upcoming shows on the Great Oregon Steam up, SP 4449 and the Oregon Coast Railroad.
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The Benson Hotel is a 287-room historic hotel building in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. It is owned and operated by Coast Hotels & Resorts. It was originally known as the New Oregon Hotel and is commonly known as The Benson. It has a reputation as one of Portland's finest hotels. The hotel is named after notable businessman and philanthropist Simon Benson. The Benson is the seventh largest hotel in Portland based on the number of rooms
The Pittock Mansion is a French Renaissance-style château in the West Hills of Portland, Oregon, USA. The mansion was originally built in 1909 as a private home for London-born Oregonian publisher Henry Pittock and his wife, Georgiana. It is a 46-room estate built of Tenino Sandstone situated on 46 acres (190,000 m2) that is now owned by the city's Bureau of Parks and Recreation and open for touring.
Modeled after Victorian and French Renaissance architecture, the forty-six room house is situated on an expanse in the West Hills that provides panoramic views of Downtown Portland. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Southern Pacific Daylight #4449 Portland, Oregon
Southern Pacific Daylight #4449 Portland, Oregon (8/28/19)
Southern Pacific #4449, also known as the Daylight, is the only surviving example of Southern Pacific Railroad's GS-4 class of steam locomotives and one of only two GS-class locomotives surviving, the other being a GS-6. The locomotive is a streamlined 4-8-4 (Northern) type steam locomotive. GS is abbreviated from Golden State, a nickname for California (where the locomotive was operated in regular service), or General Service. The locomotive was built by Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, for SP in May 1941; it received the red-and-orange Daylight paint scheme for the passenger trains of the same name which it hauled for most of its service career. No. 4449 was retired from revenue service in 1956 and put into storage. In 1958 it was donated, by the railroad, to the City of Portland, who then put it on static display in Oaks Amusement Park, where it remained until 1974. It was restored to operation for use in the American Freedom Train, which toured the 48 contiguous United States for the American Bicentennialcelebrations. Since then, 4449 has been operated in excursion service throughout the continental US; its operations are based at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, where it is maintained by a group of dedicated volunteers called Friends of SP 4449. In 1983, a poll of Trains magazine readers chose the 4449 as the most popular locomotive in the nation.
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Oregon Pacific Railroad Passenger Train August 29, 2015 Portland, OR
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Streetcars (Trams) in Portland, Oregon
The Portland Streetcar is a streetcar system in Portland, Oregon, that opened in 2001 and serves areas surrounding downtown Portland. The 3.9-mile (6.3 km) NS Line runs from Northwest Portland to the South Waterfront via Downtown and the Pearl District. The Loop Service, which opened in September 2012 as the Central Loop (CL Line), runs from Downtown to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry via the Pearl District, the Broadway Bridge across Willamette River, the Lloyd District, and the Central Eastside Industrial District and added 3.3 miles (5.3 km) of route. In September 2015 the line was renamed as the Loop Service, with the A Loop traveling clockwise, and the B Loop traveling counterclockwise. The two-route system serves some 20,000 daily riders.
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