Actually, Oregon is planning an increase and improvement of service (EIS is suppose to be out soon). But what they decide is anybody's guess, especially with WSDOT and its two-headed plan (long range Cascades plan vs the Cascades HSR plans)

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> Back to Cascades: could this provide an excuse for
> Oregon to abandon service south of Portland? They
> don't run many trains anyway, and if they have to
> pad out conventional equipment to 7 cars for all
> of them they could just say why bother. The rest
> of the corridor is on BNSF, and their stated axle
> count wouldn't require many changes once the
> Talgos are gone.