Oregon rail officials look to push high-speed passenger service into distant future

(Source: The Register-Guard, July 17, 2016)

EUGENE, Ore. — The Oregon Department of Transportation spent four years and $10 million mulling where the Willamette Valley passenger rail line of the future should go — and is about to decide that it should stay put, on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, where the long-standing intermingling of passenger and freight service guarantees ­sluggish passenger service

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