On Saturday, May 13, visitors to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Southeast Portland can take a ride on an 111-year-old steam locomotive. Nowadays, most trains are electric or diesel-powered, but ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Oregon Rail Heritage Center’s newest steam locomotive, th e Mount Emily Shay #1, is on display for the first time since the Oregon Historical Society donated the train to ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The historic steam logging locomotive Mount Emily Shay #1 traveled by BNSF Railway on a flatcar from its former home on the City of Prineville Railway to its new home at the ...
Locomotives have a fascinating history. They were one of the first methods to mass transport goods from one place to another, and while the first railroads used horses to pull carts along the tracks, ...