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The Columbia River Gorge is a canyon of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Up to 4,000 feet (1,200 m) deep, the canyon stretches for over eighty miles (130 km) as the river winds westward through the Cascade Range , forming the boundary between the state of Washington to the north and Oregon to the south. [ 1 ]
The sternwheeler MV Columbia Gorge, a 1983 diesel-powered replica steamboat, operates on the Willamette River in non-summer months. Main article: Tourist sternwheelers of Oregon In much more recent decades, starting in the early 1980s, a number of replica steamboats have been built, for use as tour boats in river cruise service on the Columbia ...
Starvation Creek State Park is a state park located west of Hood River, Oregon in the Columbia River Gorge. It was named Starvation Creek because a train was stopped there by snow drifts and passengers had to dig out the train. No documented starvation took place. [2] Starvation Creek has a small waterfall and a trailhead for hiking. [3]
1910 postcard showing the North Bank Bridge over the Columbia River. Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge 9.6 or BNSF Railway Bridge 9.6, [3] also known as the Columbia River Railroad Bridge, [4] is through truss railway bridge across the Columbia River, between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, owned and operated by BNSF Railway. [3]
Columbia Valley Railroad: UP: 1899 1907 Ilwaco Railroad: Connell Northern Railway: NP: 1909 1914 Northern Pacific Railway: Cowlitz, Chehalis and Cascade Railway: GN/ MILW/ NP/ UP: 1916 1955 N/A Curtis, Milburn and Eastern Railroad: CMER 1973 1993 N/A Eastern-Washington Railroad: UP: 1904 Spokane – Columbia River Railroad and Navigation Company
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The railroad travels on tracks that pass along the edge of Tillamook Bay and the Oregon Coast, and through thick forest along the Nehalem River. [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 ...