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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016
Rail: Last freight train visited Port’s central waterfront in 2003
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But by most accounts,
Astoria is no longer a destina-
tion for regular freight or pas-
senger rail service.
Regular passenger trains
to Astoria had ended by the
1950s. Bob Melbo, the state
rail planner and president of
Portland & Western until 2001,
said sporadic cargo rail ser-
vice to Astoria ended in 1995.
He said Astoria Plywood Mill
was the last major freight rail
customer in Astoria. A three-
car freight train from Portland
& Western carrying undersea
iber optic cables in 2003 was
the last to travel to the Port’s
central waterfront.
“Typically, railroads thrive
on volume,” Melbo said, add-
ing there would need to be a
signiicant volume of rail cars
to justify ixing up the rails
through Astoria to freight
capacity.
Like Port Executive Direc-
tor Jim Knight, Melbo said it’s
more likely freight rail would
come back to North Tongue
Point. The former U.S. Navy
base and industrial dock has
been under continual specu-
lation as a marine terminal,
because of its access to both
a derelict rail spur from the
Portland & Western Railroad
and a channel of the Colum-
bia River.
Repairing the rail between
Wauna and Tongue point has
been estimated at $1 million a
mile. Rece Bly, a retired attor-
ney and entrepreneur, is the
most recent party to offer his
vision of Tongue Point. Bly
said there would need to be
about 5,000 rail cars of cargo
a year to Tongue Point to jus-
The Daily Astorian/File Photo
The city of Astoria acquired the right-of-way to a former Bur-
lington Northern Santa Fe LLC rail corridor in 1996 through
a railbanking agreement to preserve historic tracks.
Clatsop County Heritage Museum
A 1972 aerial photo shows the multiple rail spurs that used to line the Port of Astoria’s
docks. The last regular freight service to Astoria was more than 20 years ago, but the
Port of Astoria wants to the city to maintain rail access just in case freight returns.
tify repairing the rails. Melbo
said a previous interstate com-
merce commission estimated
the need for 9,300 cars a year
to make freight service to
Tongue Point feasible.
The minimum
The state Department
of Transportation recently
warned the city that bridge
ends between Sixth and 11th
streets could have to close to
both vehicular trafic and the
trolley unless repairs were
made immediately. The situa-
tion was similar to that faced
by the Port, which closed por-
tions of Pier 2’s docks after
state inspectors limited them
to 3 tons, essentially barring
delivery trucks but allowing
passenger trafic.
The Astoria City Coun-
cil declared an emergency
and approved of $206,000 in
emergency repairs in August.
Bergerson Construction Co.
is now working its way down
the street ends, reinforcing the
bridges.
“The repairs that are being
done right now are being done
just to maintain the 3-ton road
limit,” said Cindy Moore, the
city’s support engineer.
Moore said the city is try-
ing to do only the minimum
amount of maintenance in
advance of a $12 million proj-
ect to replace those street-end
bridges starting next fall and
continuing over the next few
years.
“After that project, then we
will have bridges that are to
highway standards,” she said,
She estimated it would take
the city an additional $950,000
to bring the bridge ends up to
The Daily Astorian/File Photo
The city of Astoria is repairing the street-end bridges in
downtown to accommodate cars, trucks and the Astoria
Riverfront Trolley. The Port of Astoria Commission would
like the tracks kept ready for freight service, as well.
rail standards.
“We did present that to
ODOT,” she said. “They have
denied us the funding to build
it to full freight standards.”
But Moore said the new
bridge ends in downtown will
leave space underneath to
expand the substructure and
expand the capacity of the rails,
if Portland & Western were to
make such an investment.
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Vandals: $1,600 worth of equipment
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“It makes me sad,” Warr
said, adding that he believes
it took a few people to tip
the headstones. “I can under-
stand. I was young and maybe
a little wild at one time and
did some reckless things,
never anything like that.”
Astoria has struggled with
maintenance at Ocean View.
Families with loved ones
buried there have frequently
complained to the city about
the cemetery’s condition.
The parks department
has dificulty maintain-
ing city parks and has been
under pressure to prioritize
services.
On Tuesday, Cosby said,
the city found a break-in at
the Astoria Recreation Cen-
ter and the theft of $1,600
worth of equipment used for
the CHIP-in parks cleanup
program.
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“I would just like to
remind people that this is
your tax dollars you’re work-
ing with when you cause
damage like this,” Cosby
said. “You’re really only
stealing from yourself.
“And you’re hurting an
organization that’s already
spread so thin.”
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