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Leg 6 - Portland Oregon
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Day 29 - Monday 17 January 2000
Traveling daily between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest along major portions of the Lewis and Clark trail, the mighty Empire Builder takes you on an exciting adventure through majestic wilderness, following the footsteps of early pioneers.
Once aboard our train, the ‘Empire Builder’ we made our way to cabin 4, a sleeper cabin which is rather small but comfortable, much smaller than a sleeper cabin on the ‘Sunlander’. It comprises 2 seats which fold into 1 bed while the overhead bed is released and dropped down not leaving much space between it and the door. Lucky we are not very big people and as it turns out, I lost the flip of the coin and will sleep up top tonight.
Day 30 - Tuesday 18 January 2000
Due to the windows in the train, the weather outside and time of day, the following photos were downloaded from the Internet and show places the 'Empire Builder' passed through on our way from Chicago to Portland.
Day 31 - Wednesday 19 January 2000
Day 32 - Thursday 20 January 2000
We took the ‘MAX’, an electric tram system (constructed 2 years ago) that goes through the city centre out to Hillsboro in the west and Gresham in the west of Portland. The whole system is operated by an electronic ticket vending machine at each stop along the journey. The whole route is divided into zones at $1.45 per zone. Our journey to Hillsboro some 45 miles from the city crosses 3 zones. While heading west we passed through a tunnel taking 9.5 miles at around 45 mph which makes it longer than any tunnel I have travelled in, even the tunnel from Bullocks Flat to Blue Cow in Perisher Valley on the Snowy Mountains.
Richard (Van) VanGrunsven founded Van's Aircraft, Inc. in 1972 and began selling plans and a few parts for the RV-3. These he manufactured himself, working in a small shop behind his house in the small town of Reedville, Oregon.
RV Aircraft are low-wing monoplanes of traditional aluminum construction. They use simple steel rod or leaf fixed landing gear. Aileron and elevators are controlled by a between-the-knees stick driving the surfaces through pushrods and ball bearings. The rudder is controlled by stainless steel cables. Fuel is contained in two sealed, removable, portions of the leading edge, and routed through a selector valve in the cockpit to the engine driven fuel pump. An electric fuel pump is installed in the system as a backup.
For breakfast we walked up to the Lloyd Centre, a huge shopping mall in the North West region of Portland where most of the government buildings are located. Inside the Lloyd Centre is a full size ice skating rink complete with a large machine used to smooth and level the ice surface. Instructors for both ice skating and hockey use these facilities and there is a place where you can hire ice skates. On the two levels are shops and professional offices and an 8 theatre complex. On the third level is a food court with every type of food disk you would like to choose from.
We checked out of our hotel at 12 noon and caught a taxi to Union Station to catch the 2:33pm ‘Coast Starlight’ Amtrak train to San Francisco. Being 1st class we were ushered into the lounge and had lunch and coffee while waiting for our train to arrive from Seattle, Washington.