The historic Mount Emily Shay, a 100-year-old steam engine that once carried logs to lumber mills in Washington and LaGrande, Ore., pulled into its new home at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center ...

The Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland is primarily as a place for rail enthusiasts to fix steam engines. But now center organizers have plans to become more like a museum to attract more ...

The Oregon Rail Heritage Center provides for the preservation, operation and public enjoyment of Portland’s historic locomotives, railroad equipment, and artifacts, and educates the public about ...

CULTURE Oregon Rail Heritage Center Real-life trains roll by on the tracks just outside, making for an immersive tour, guided or self-paced.

The Oregon Rail Heritage Center’s newest steam locomotive the Mount Emily Shay #1 is on display for the first time since the Oregon Historical Society donated the train to the local railway ...

Portland’s annual “Holiday Express” train rides with Santa on the Oregon Pacific Railroad resume Nov. 24, the Oregon Rail Heritage Center announced.

PORTLAND, Ore. (ARC PDX) — The Oregon Rail Heritage Center has been in its current home near OMSI for about a dozen years, and now the center is having some growing pains, partly of its own ...

The locomotive came to the center from Prineville in 2022 after the Oregon Historical Society, which had owned the Shay for decades, selected Oregon Rail Heritage Center to be its permanent home.

Rail preservation often comes with challenges, and the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation (ORHF) is no exception. Yet despite challenging times, the organization continues to find times for ...

In this supplied photo, the Polson #2 steam engine heads southeast from Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Southeast Portland. kLik / Oregon Rail Heritage Center Portland’s railway museum is about ...

Tickets are now available to ride the Holiday Express at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center.Rides on the historic steam locomotive begin on Friday, Nov. 19 and run ...

The Oregon Rail Heritage Center helps tell the history of railroads and the roll it had in building and developing the Pacific NW. It features several steam engines and historical locomotives ...