Railroads in the Garden

Colorado Southern Railroad

The Colorado Southern is a steam railroad set in the 1930’s built for operations with 60 turnouts. The layout is a single track requiring five passing sidings so trains traveling in opposite directions can get around each other. The Northern division climbs to the summit of a 5-foot brim. The rocky mountain landscape, forest, lake and 50-foot long whitewater river and waterfall that move 250 gallons of water per minute challenged the engineers to find a 2% grade route to the future town at the summit. To accomplish this feat, they employed several bridges and three tunnels totaling 90 feet in length.

The Southern division is the larger lower loop and contains many sidings for industries yet to be built to switch freight cars.

Trains are controlled by wireless remote control. The mainline is 450 feet with 750 feet of total track. Construction began in 1997.

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I Love Sushi



Inari Sushi (VEGAN)



It’s that time again when we gather around at the Beaverton Culinary Institute or we are well known as simply BCI. This time we try to make sushi, it takes twenty years to make a sushi chef, but we try it in just twenty minutes. Come and see how we did.

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$400.00 Cheeseburger, really?



Willamette River Rapids



How much does a hamburger cost? How about if I tell you close to $400.00? Well, the closest In-N-Out Hamburger joint is more than 450 miles away from Portland in Redding, California. We drove three hours more to the south from Klamath Falls so Pokie could have her favorite hamburger, the $400.00 is the cost to travel to Redding plus some other places we visited along the way.

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Festival of Flowers 2013

Pioneer Courthouse Square

This “Festival of Flowers” is an annual event at the Portland Living Room namely Pioneer Courthouse Square. Some years are more elaborate than others, but it always attracts a lot of visitors. This year theme is Tattoo Portland. This year, it was designed by Lango Hansen Landscape Architects.

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Klamath & Western Railroad

Klamath & Western Railroad

I promise this is the last train ride for a while, I can only do two train rides in a year, otherwise it will be a torture for Pokie. But I have to say that she really enjoys the ride other than the Train Mountain ride in which she needs to push and finds her way to go get help. This is really fun for the kid like myself. All aboard……………

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Train Mountain Railroad

Train Mountain RR

I will always be a kid at heart when it comes to train, someone just said that maybe I was a train engineer in my previous life, I agree. This is Train Mountain Railroad in Chiloquin, southern Oregon. Come, I will show you around.

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Postcards from Klamath Falls, Oregon

Klamath Falls Amtrak station

Welcome to Klamath Falls, Oregon, population of 42,000 give or take. This is a neat small little town if you ask me. It has an Amtrak station where you can go north to Portland or as far north as Vancouver, British Columbia by changing train in Seattle, or you can go south to Los Angeles and of course San Francisco. It has also a small airport with two commercial flights per day serving to San Francisco and of course Portland to the north. Oh, almost forgot to mention, it has a decent RV Park as well.

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