Trains

Amtrak’s "Horizon" railcars have been pulled from service due to corrosion concerns, affecting nearly all trips on Amtrak Cascades daily service between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Eugene, Oregon.

The report recommends restoring long-distance passenger rail service to Eastern Oregon. Passenger rail ended in the region in 1997 after Amtrak’s Pioneer line was discontinued.

The train was operated by Portland and Western Railroad and was carrying “agricultural materials,” according to a news release from Corvallis Police.

The Federal Railroad Administration, which is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, is investing in Oregon projects.

We learn more about efforts to prevent future oil spills from the editor of Columbia Insight.

The Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland is primarily as a place for rail enthusiasts to fix steam engines. But now center organizers have plans to become more like a museum to attract more visitors.

Two freight-to-rail centers in the Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon have failed to fulfill a single promise of boosting agricultural exports and reducing emissions.

The labor impasse doesn’t involve workers who operate Amtrak trains, such as those that run on the Cascade corridor in Oregon and Washington. But those trains operate on tracks controlled by freight railroad companies and maintained by the employees who would be out on strike.

National Transportation Safety Board officials raised questions at an investigative hearing this week about the problematic curve where the deadly Washington derailment occurred.

Amtrak Cascades and Coast Starlight services are suspended between Portland and Seattle until 10 p.m. Sunday.