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Here's the easy way, and my Daughter does this monthly from ORC to EUG on the Cascades. ORC is a platform with an open air shelter; no staff, no machines. Buy and pay for your ticket on line at amtrak.com - even on the day of departure, print out the confirmation, show that to the conductor...

If you mean the Cascades hitting the person sitting on the tracks, right here Portland Tribune News Item Sitting on the tracks, enjoying a beverage, how sad for everybody.

Pleasent Dreams Sleeper Layout :)

It hasn't returned to all. I watched the southbound Starlight as it passed ORC today - no it doesn't stop there but it passes thru the station - and there was no drumhead. On the birght side, the parolur car was part of the consist. What tha? :o Driving out to see if a train has a...

After lurking here for several months, I finally took the train. I hadn't been on an America train since I was 8 (a long time ago on the City of Portland) and my wife had never been on one. We decided to go to Reno after Christmas and I convinced her we should take the train down - what a...