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February 3, 2003

Lewis and Clark train scrambles for funding

  • The Oregon DOT has bought three rail cars for the Portland to Astoria excursion ride but now needs to find money for operations -- quickly.
    • By BENJAMIN ROMANO
    The Daily Astorian

    ASTORIA, Ore. -- Squeezing $442,000 out of the Oregon Legislature to buy three rail cars for a Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Celebration train service may have been the easy part.

    Now, on a shoestring budget, the Oregon Department of Transportation has less than four months to figure out how to operate the Portland to Astoria run.


     
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