I've written about it before, but in brief, when I worked at ODOT I had access to the SP engineering diagrams and operating timetables and a Coast Starlight equivalent would have been five hours slower on the 19th Century Siskiyou Line than on the 20th Century Cascade Line.
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Yep, we talked about that on the last page. Without really finding out a reason why.
The Oregonian website has a positive article about a family trip by transit and intercity bus from Portland to Cannon Beach.
Sometimes they've temporarily discontinued service while changing agents or stop locations, which is why I re-checked their information. It's been going on for long enough to seem "permanent".
Ah, okay. Sorry for doubting that you were on the ball!
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Yes, I started back then to learn Morse code, but got so interested in photography that I never followed up. There was a telegrapher's club in Portland that met in the Mallory Hotel and would set up a circuit and chit chat in code. The Vancouver station was a busy place due to the junction, but also because trains on the Tacoma line were under the NP dispatcher in that city, so new train orders had to be issued in each direction. (The line between Vancouver and Portland was the SP&S.) I also spent time at Willbridge, where I could watch the CTC board from outside of the station.
I was on vacation (many videos coming soon!) so I didn't have access to a computer and couldn't answer this.
This is obviously a very difficult topic, but I will say a few things about it from an urban development/transit position.
I've heard, don't know if this is accurate, that some of the surrounding Oregon counties aren't in the 'self-limiting' growth pact which has led to them growing and sprawling. It's also led to Vancouver being a housing destination for cheaper housing since it's in another state the regulations haven't affected it as much - obviously everywhere has had massive ramp ups in prices lately.
Washington, Multnomah and Clackamas counties are the three counties that make up the Portland area, and over the past 50 years, they have also made up most of the population growth of Oregon. Of course, to a large extent that was also the population center before then. But also, on the other hand, they are physically pretty small. Washington County (Portland's western suburbs), which previous to 1970 was mostly a sleepy agricultural area, gained about 450,000 people. So on that graph, we can compare Washington County, 726 square miles, to Linn County, 2300 square miles, and see how many more people have fit in a relatively small area, because it had a lot of density and transit. So one of the arguments against opening up land is that, if people wanted to do that---the land is still there. Other cities in the state also have Urban Growth Boundaries, but in many case they do have a lot of unused land. But people have continued to choose to mostly live in the Portland area.It can get to be very confusing, because statistical areas aren't equal, and sometimes they are misleading. Especially in a case like Portland, where the metro or CSA might cross a state boundary. So a lot of comparisons are apples-to-oranges. It mostly only becomes a problem when someone is using them in bad faith. I try to use mine in good faith, and also (to use another produce-centric analogy) to not cherry pick data.
The SP Red Electric ran from Portland to Corvallis via Lake Oswego, Newberg and Independence. A second line ran from Portland via Forest Grove and McMinnville to a junction with the Lake Oswego line. Their intention was to extend the wire to Eugene, but in the "meantime" ran a steam powered train daily and a second steam train tri-weekly south of Corvallis. Suver had three electrics daily to and from Portland and Corvallis. See Table 9 in the attached USRRA schedule.
