Two Railroads in View Revisited Traditional Cache
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Two Railroads in View Revisited
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There is NO parking by the cache, nearest parking is at N44 58.440 W123 00.561, but requires going up a lot of steps and walking up hill (hence terrain rating) and crossing a relatively busy street weekdays. The cache is an easy grab from the sidewalk. This is #2 in a series of Railroad History Caches highlight history of active rail lines in Oregon
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NOTE: This is a new 2012 cache replacining the original 2007 cache opf the same name just to the west. That cache is now called View of the KROC Center.
Welcome to one of the newest streets in Salem! Bill Frey Dr. This unique street starts at Portland Road, raises up and over the Union Pacific RR (formerly Southern Pacific and Oregon & California RR) tracks then quickly drops down into the new Claggett Creek Natural area. It gets very close to the Portland & Western Railroad (formerly Burlington Northern and Oregon Electric) before it spins around under itself to reach Industrial Drive.
This cache has a command view of the road loop and both railroads. The P&W (to the west) was an old electric railway built around 1912 linking Portland with Eugene. It had overhead wire above the tracks. Note the high tension wires that are still parallel the line. This line see a couple to few freight trains a day. The UP to the east was built in the late 1800's linking Portland to California. This line see 25+ trains a day plus Amtrak Cascades & Coast Starlight trains.
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