For anyone that might be interested, the Oregon Pacific Railroad will be hosting public train rides on Memorial Day (May 27th) at Oaks Station. Oaks Station is located directly across from Oaks Amusement Park in Portland, Oregon.

Times will be approximately 10am until sometime in the evening when we all get tired. We don’t have a set schedule. Trains will run when enough people arrive to ride and last about 40 minutes round trip. The route will be the same as used for the Holiday Express if you’re local and familiar with that event that we host every winter with ORHF and their steam locomotives.

The consist will be OPR’s No. 1413, a GMD-1 switcher, our former Samtrak caboose and open air car, Chris McLarney’s restored UP caboose and Portland Traction Company No. 100, an EMD SW1.

Prices are $5 per person to ride in any of the cars or cabooses, or $10 if you want to ride in the cab of the locomotive.

We should have a speeder or two there and if so, rides in the speeders will be $5 per person.

We’re doing the same thing July 4th. The only difference is we expect a lot more speeders and we’ll be there from 10am until after the 10pm fireworks at Oaks Park.

Thanks!

Brian McCamish
Oregon Pacific Railroad
[www.oregonpacificrr.com]