The Jungle
The Eugene Hauler crosses Vaughn Road and Noti Creek over a steel/wooden trestle near Vaughn, Oregon. The trestle was built in 1912 when the Southern Pacific built west across the Central Oregon Coast Range to connect a coastal logging railroad it acquired in 1906 with its mainline in Eugene.
The Coos Bay Rail Line operates 134 miles of what used to be the SP Coos Bay Branch between Eugene and Coquille, just south of Coos Bay, which CORP sold to the Port of Coos Bay in 2007. Upon CBRL's startup, the line suffered from deferred maintenance, and to this day the railroad is working to rehabilitate several bridges and tunnels which were crumbling under CORP.
Between Noti and Reedsport, the CBRL cuts directly across the range through some of the densest forests I have ever seen. Unfortunately, only five miles of this stretch see daylight movements as the Eugene Hauler is usually staged in Vaughn. East of Noti, the line descends into the Willamette Valley where the topography flattens out. Perhaps the intermodal project at the Port of Coos Bay will shake things up a bit and we can see daylight freights west of Vaughn one day...
The Jungle
The Eugene Hauler crosses Vaughn Road and Noti Creek over a steel/wooden trestle near Vaughn, Oregon. The trestle was built in 1912 when the Southern Pacific built west across the Central Oregon Coast Range to connect a coastal logging railroad it acquired in 1906 with its mainline in Eugene.
The Coos Bay Rail Line operates 134 miles of what used to be the SP Coos Bay Branch between Eugene and Coquille, just south of Coos Bay, which CORP sold to the Port of Coos Bay in 2007. Upon CBRL's startup, the line suffered from deferred maintenance, and to this day the railroad is working to rehabilitate several bridges and tunnels which were crumbling under CORP.
Between Noti and Reedsport, the CBRL cuts directly across the range through some of the densest forests I have ever seen. Unfortunately, only five miles of this stretch see daylight movements as the Eugene Hauler is usually staged in Vaughn. East of Noti, the line descends into the Willamette Valley where the topography flattens out. Perhaps the intermodal project at the Port of Coos Bay will shake things up a bit and we can see daylight freights west of Vaughn one day...