Preserving Freight and Passenger Rail Corridors and Service (2007) / Chapter Skim
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In some cases the vision has not been achieved, but the properties have been preserved. Here are some of the more interesting rail corridor success stories that we have found in this investigation.
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. Rail service to the last remaining freight customers ended in the fall of 1992.
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(Some carriers, such as Norfolk Southern generally leave mining rail rights-of-way in place until and unless there is no further prospect for renewed extractive operations.) FIGURE 8 Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railway timetable page.
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WILLAMETTE SHORE TROLLEY A nearly abandoned 5.6-mile Southern Pacific branch line linking the downtown core with suburban Lake Oswego is likely to become a vital transportation link in the Portland, Oregon, metro area. The right-of-way was first established in 1885–1887 as the Portland and Willamette Valley Railroad, which began operation in July 1887.
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(Source: Ohio Rail Development Commission.) FIGURE 11 Willamette Shore Trolley emerges from tunnel.
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23 alignment will, in time, be used as a significant transit corridor for the following reasons: • Traffic and congestion in the Portland region are increasing; • Long-range transportation improvement plans for Metro rule out "broad scale expansion in highway capacity" in the subject alignment; and • Portland's first streetcar line in the northwest section of the downtown area has been far more successful than expected, and public understanding of the relatively "low impact" nature of streetcar operations has somewhat eased the concerns of homeowners adjacent to the Willamette Shore route. Success of the restoration, should it occur, may be credited to: • Early involvement by a wide range of local public stakeholders to negotiate retention of the alignment and purchase from the Southern Pacific Railroad.
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