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Amtrak Cascades offers tours of new trains at Portland Union Station


The crew looks like proud parents outside the new Amtrak Cascades Mt. Bachelor train. The train is owned by the Oregon Department of Transportation and carries the logo of other partners in the service. (ODOT)

Terry Richard | [email protected] By Terry Richard | [email protected]
on October 10, 2013 at 11:49 AM

http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2013/10/amtrak_cascades_offers_tours_o.html

The public is invited to check out the new trains in Portland that will soon be running between Eugene and Vancouver, B.C., on the Amtrak Cascades line.

The Oregon Department of Transportation and its partners will celebrate Oregon's new passenger trains, which will soon join the operating fleet. Displays, speakers, giveaways and tours of the train will take place Saturday, Oct. 19, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Portland's Union Station, 800 N.W. Sixth Ave.

Oregon's new trains are Talgo Series 8 trains, the only ones that will be operating in the world. ODOT purchased the trains using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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