National Train Day celebrated at Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland

May 9 is National Train Day and the Oregon Rail Heritage Center is celebrating all weekend long. Guests are able to get up ...
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Oregon Rail Heritage Center trying to morph from workshop to museum

Bill Habjan, a retired doctor from Lebanon, Oregon, makes the 160-mile round trip to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland’s Central Eastside twice a week to work on an old engine. “When a steam ...
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Historic steam engine exhibited in Portland for first time

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Oregon Rail Heritage Center’s newest steam locomotive, th e Mount Emily Shay #1, is on display for the first time since the Oregon Historical Society donated the train to ...
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Oregon route named one of the best train rides in the U.S. for stargazing

In recent years, DarkSky International has designated Oregon towns and public lands as official DarkSky places. Heck, we even have the biggest Dark Sky Sanctuary in the world in southern Oregon’s Lake ...
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Oregon's antique trains move into the future

PORTLAND, Ore. (ARC PDX) — The Oregon Rail Heritage Center has been in its current home near OMSI for about a dozen years, and now the center is having some growing pains, partly of its own design.