Heritage route
Mount Hood Railroad
Hood River → Parkdale · United States
Mount Hood Railroad in pictures
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- Distance
- 34 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 14 km/h
- Top speed
- 32 km/h
- Operator
- Mount Hood Railroad
- Train
- EMD GP9 · excursion coaches
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1906
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Climbs the orchard-filled Hood River valley toward 11,240-ft Mount Hood, reversing up one of just five railroad switchbacks still in regular US use.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 1042 m); the longest stretch away from it is 9.5 km
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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