The Oregon Zoo Railway is one step closer to being recognized nationally as a piece of history. The State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation Friday recommended that the railway be nominated ...

Rail preservation often comes with challenges, and the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation (ORHF) is no exception. Yet despite challenging times, the organization continues to find times for celebration - ...

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 ...

CORBETT, Ore. — Some getaways are as close as your own backyard, and I recently met a couple who can prove it. Gary and Jonette Lee share a love affair with Oregon’s railroading past and they bring it ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Oregon Historical Society and the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation announced Friday the permanent transfer of the Mount Emily Shay #1 steam locomotive from the City of ...

WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced Tuesday that $42,712,400 in federal funding is coming to Oregon for five projects to improve railroad safety, efficiency, and ...

Matt Wiederholt remembers the boom days of the sawmills in Prineville. Trucks hauled logs out of the Ochoco National Forest to seven mills in town. Multiple trains a day rolled through town, blowing a ...

BEND, Ore. — Moving thousands of pounds of cargo isn’t typically an issue for the trains that use the city of Prineville Railway in Oregon, but what about when the cargo is the train itself? That’s ...

For a quarter century, the green-painted electric trains rolled through downtown Salem. And on one October afternoon in 1955, one last trip to remember them by. Hundreds of nostalgic residents ...