All sorts of options to speed it up. My guess would be the HSR option seeing how Microsoft and others are pitching in big bucks for a Cascadia HSR line.

• The Blue corridor concept would generally follow the existing Amtrak Cascades route within or near the UPRR right-of-way between Eugene/Springfield and Portland. Passenger trains would share track with freight trains and have a maximum speed of 79 miles per hour (mph). Existing and potential new station locations included Springfield, Eugene, Harrisburg, Tangent, Albany, Salem, Brooks, Woodburn,Canby, Oregon City and Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington.
• The Red corridor concept would parallel Interstate 5 (I-5), either within or near the current highway right-of-way, starting at a new station in Springfield and heading north to Vancouver, Washington. The alignment would consist of largely new track devoted to intercity passenger rail service and have a maximum design speed of 110 mph. Potential new and existing station locations included Springfield,
Eugene, Albany, Salem, Keizer, Woodburn, Wilsonville, Tualatin and Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington.
• The Purple corridor concept would generally follow the existing freight rail line historically known as the Oregon Electric Railway (OER) and would involve the intermingling of passenger and freight rail with
limited sections that had passenger-only traffic, and a maximum design speed of 110 mph. Existing and potential new station locations included Springfield, Eugene, Harrisburg, Albany, Salem, Keizer, Donald, Wilsonville and Tualatin.
• The Yellow corridor concept would originate in Springfield, follow the Purple corridor to Junction City and proceed to Monroe on a new rail alignment. Near Monroe, the alignment would connect with a currently abandoned rail grade and then proceed north through Corvallis, McMinnville and Lake Oswego before connecting to the Purple corridor at Tualatin. The Yellow corridor would also include options to connect to the Purple or Blue corridors in Albany or east of Independence. The Yellow concept would involve the intermingling of passenger and freight rail, and a maximum design speed of 79 mph. Existing and potential new station locations included Springfield, Eugene, Corvallis, Independence, McMinnville, Newberg and Tualatin.
• The Cascadia High-Speed Rail (HSR) corridor concept would consist of a fully electric high-speed rail alignment from Eugene to Vancouver, Washington, that would be separate from existing rail right-ofway and have a maximum design speed of 180 mph. Stakeholders introduced this concept during the scoping process, and it was defined to include electric power locomotives. This rail alignment would be similar to the Red corridor concept, following the I-5 median at-grade where possible from Eugene to Tualatin. North of Tualatin, it would travel along a new dedicated right-of-way on a combination of tunnel and elevated track along the Willamette River to the Rose Quarter in Portland, and then north
across the Columbia River on a new bridge. Existing and potential station locations associated with the EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
E S - 6 Oregon Passenger Rail Project Tier 1 Draft Environmental Impact Statement
OCTOBER 2018
Cascadia HSR corridor concept included Eugene, Albany, Salem, Keizer, Woodburn, Wilsonville, Tualatin and Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington.

[www.oregonpassengerrail.org]

Erik H. Wrote:
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> les Wrote:
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> > Of course nobody will ride a line that goes
> slower than a speeding tortoise-motive.
> > Once they move the speeds to comparable auto
> speeds or better
>
> Except there is virtually no way to fix the
> bottleneck that is Portland to Woodburn, unless
> you build atop the river, relocate the line
> somewhere else, or take out Highway 99E.
>
> Even if you use the Oregon Electric you have the
> issue of getting trains off the OE and into Union
> Station using the UP through East Portland, or you
> have the issue of one station for north of
> Portland and one for south, which adds to travel
> time and decreases ridership. For a service that
> already struggles with ridership, that would not
> help matters.