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The Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad (reporting mark POTB) is a shortline railroad in northwestern Oregon in the United States. It was established in 1952 to handle switching in Tillamook, Oregon, and came to greater prominence in 1986 when it leased 94 miles (151 km) of the Southern Pacific Railroad's Tillamook Branch.
The bay is protected from the open ocean by shoals and a 3 mi (5 km) sandbar called the Bayocean Peninsula.It is surrounded closely by the Coastal Range except at its southeast end, where the town of Tillamook sits near the mouths of the Kilchis, Wilson, Trask and Tillamook rivers, which flow quickly down from the surrounding timber-producing regions of the Coastal Range to converge at the bay.
Tillamook Airport (IATA: OTK, ICAO: KTMK, FAA LID: TMK) is a public use airport located 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the central business district of Tillamook, a city in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. It is owned by the Port of Tillamook Bay. [2]
The OCSR runs its collection of vintage rail equipment over 46 miles (74 km) of former Southern Pacific Transportation Company track under a lease from the Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad (POTB), an entity distinct from the OCSR. [3] [4] Garibaldi Station is the only station on the system equipped with a wheelchair lift.
Up until 2007, a third shortline interchanged with the PNWR. This was the Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad, [5] which interchanged with PNWR solely, at Hillsboro. This line carried a significant number of carloads, primarily lumber, from Tillamook, Oregon, over the coast range via 100 miles
Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad (POTB). Operated between Tillamook and the Portland metropolitan area, interchanging with the PNWR in Washington County, [20] until a December 2007 storm caused extensive damage to its main line that has not been repaired. Portland and Western Railroad (PNWR)/Willamette and Pacific Railroad (WPRR).
The World, Coos Bay, Ore. March 27, 2024 at 11:17 PM Mar. 27—The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay and the Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
Bayocean was a yacht that was built in 1911 to serve the now-vanished resort of Bayocean on the coast of Oregon at the entrance to Tillamook Bay.Considered an attractive vessel with a clipper bow and twin raked smokestacks, [1] [2] Bayocean was expensive to operate, was "somewhat cranky" at sea, and spent much of the time tied to a dock. [2]