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Oregon Coast legal victory a win for restoration of tracks
This is great news. Hopefully the bureaucrats in Oregon will back off now and let the volunteers resume work on the repairs that the state was opposed to.
I always had a great passion for this line, going back to SP days. It will be good to see it all back together again. Hopefully, once that happens, freight can move on it again also.
I’m surprised a forward thinking state like Oregon is pursuing this case. I’d expect it more from the more backward thinkers.
Maybe the state didn’t want future competition for the Coos Bay line.
Oregon is forward thinking. They don’t want haphazard construction along a salmon stream to cause damage to the stream. The tourist railroad should have just obtained the environmental permits. More people and sportsmen are concerned with healthy rivers. This railway gave tourist railroad organizations a black eye.
mr. moss the construction was being carried out by a professional rail road construction company. and as you can see the state did not have the right to stop them. they were within there rights,so please check all your facts.
This is a defeat not only for the state but also for the environmentalists. It is certainly good news and may cause other states and environmental organizations to think twice before trying to throw up road blocks to worthwhile projects.
Nothing will ever stop the environmental whackos, Not totally anyway. Any kind of progress that is good for the economy or for people is against everything these nutjobs believe in. I’m getting so tired of hearing about how we hard working folks are destroying the world. Maybe we need to somehow make it a requirement that they must prove beyond any doubt their claims that the environment is being harmed before any rules or legislation is enacted.
The railroads are are more than 100 miles apart and CBRL is owned by the Port of Coos Bay, not the state.
This is a tourist railroad, they were highly unlikely to damage the environment when they want to draw tourists from Portland.
We who live in rural Oregon because we love the environment don’t think that the people in Portland or Eugene get to dictate to us about the ways we can make a living. Many would have us be a tree museum for their recreation, leaving our young people nowhere to go to earn a living that isn’t flipping hamburgers or making motel beds.
What was wrong about restoring a line that was there for many years? Nothing except for the professional activists who must always have a cause to lead, however bogus and bureaucrats in Salem with too little to do, it would appear.
There are environmentalists and then environmental nazis these were the later.
I’m all for reconstructing the railroad. However, I am detecting inconsistencies in federal policy. In Indiana, the state has been told it is a railroad for the purpose of operating the Hoosier State passenger train, despite the fact that that train traverses two states and is therefore interstate. In this case, the railroad is entirely within one state, yet the feds are asserting control. I realize this is Oranges and Tomatoes, but it does appear to be inconsistent policy.