Both Democrats and Republicans representing the Pacific Northwest say the creation of a ship-to-rail container port at the existing Port of Coos Bay could boost West Coast port capacity by as much as 10%.
FreightWaves Classics profiles the Astoria & Columbia River Railroad.
All Western states, with Colorado topping the list
The past week in social media images features a sticky Northwest truck spill, a raging California wildfire and more.
More than 100 miles of Interstate 84 in Oregon are off-limits to commercial vehicles after a truck crash.
Both Union Pacific and BNSF have taken to rerouting trains because large wildfires have temporarily closed portions of their networks in Northern California.
Truckers will run into areas of low visibility, poor air quality and potential road closures due to dozens of Western wildfires (forecast video included).
The past week in images features huge Western wildfires, devastating floods in Colorado, a successful emergency airplane landing and more.
Truckers will keep hitting areas of low visibility, poor air quality and potential road closures due to dozens of Western wildfires (forecast video included).
Oregon’s Bootleg wildfire, the largest in the country, is almost as big as Oklahoma City, the eighth-largest U.S. city by area (forecast video included).
