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Oregon Department of Transportation - Rail and Public Transit Division
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- Type
- State DOT — state transportation department; sponsor with WSDOT of the Amtrak Cascades state-supported service, rail safety regulator, and administrator of the state's rail grant and grade-crossing funds
- Market · Region
- United States · Oregon
- Open tenders
- 0
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Signalling & train control, Digital operations, Rolling-stock hardware
Oregon DOT manages Amtrak Cascades service, runs safety oversight program and administers rail rehabilitation funds.
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Plans rather than builds. ODOT manages the Oregon portion of the Amtrak Cascades service in partnership with WSDOT - 951,397 riders corridor-wide in 2025 and 152,429 on the Oregon portion, at a total operating cost of $13,580,414.35 against $4,286,318.76 of revenue for Oregon-funded trains - inspects track and railcars, runs the State Safety Oversight programme for Oregon's rail transit, and administers Connect Oregon, the State Rail Rehabilitation Fund and the Grade Crossing Protection Account. Its draft 2027 State Rail Plan went out for comment on 8 September 2026.
- Type
- State DOT — state transportation department; sponsor with WSDOT of the Amtrak Cascades state-supported service, rail safety regulator, and administrator of the state's rail grant and grade-crossing funds
- Where
- Oregon · Salem
- Programmes
- IIJA / Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Signalling & train control, Digital operations, Rolling-stock hardware
Structure
- operated by Amtrak — Operator of the Amtrak Cascades service under operating and intergovernmental agreements with ODOT and WSDOT, holding the contractual rights to run over BNSF Railway, Canadian National and Union Pacific lines (active)
Who holds what here
- supplied by Talgo — Manufacturer and maintainer of the Oregon-owned Talgo Series 8 trainsets in service on Amtrak Cascades, to be replaced by Amtrak's Airo fleet from late 2026 (active)
- supplied by BNSF — Host railroad and match contributor: the Willbridge Crossovers project drew match contributions from Amtrak and BNSF Railway alongside federal and Connect Oregon funds (active)
Sources for these relationships (3)
- ● Oregon Department of Transportation · Amtrak Cascades - Oregon 2025 Annual Performance Report, ODOT Multimodal and Rail Services Unit, March 2026 (PDF, 14 pages, 1,652,526 bytes). Carries five-year Oregon ridership, customer on-time performance, the total operating cost, revenue and farebox recovery series for Oregon-funded trains 2021-2025, the 2025 accomplishments and the 2026-2028 timeline. (published 2026-03 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Oregon Department of Transportation · Passenger Rail — ODOT's own page on the Amtrak Cascades service. States that the Oregon portion offers two daily round trips from Eugene to Seattle, that Amtrak Cascades serves 18 cities on 467 track miles between Vancouver BC and Eugene, that 951,397 passengers rode Amtrak Cascades in 2025, that the service is funded by ticket revenue with Washington and Oregon offsetting the difference between costs and revenue, and that the Oregon stations are Portland, Oregon City, Salem, Albany and Eugene. Read 14 September 2026, HTTP 200. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Oregon Department of Transportation · Draft Oregon State Rail Plan 2027 (PDF, 199 pages, 15,850,098 bytes), published for comment 8 September 2026. Sections used: the existing rail system profile (two Class I railroads and 23 Class III short-line railroads, six of them switching railroads and terminal yards); the Amtrak Cascades service and rolling stock sections; the state-identified near-term and long-term passenger rail capital investments; Table 4-10 recent Oregon rail program funding 2025-2027; and Table 4-11 Connect Oregon rail funding. (published 2026-09-08 · checked 2026-09-14)
Tenders
| Tender | Status | Value band | Next key date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amtrak Cascades Oregon-funded State-supported Service | In execution | $5–25m | |
| Eugene Layover Track Amtrak Cascades Terminus | Planned | $5–25m | |
| Willbridge Crossovers BNSF Amtrak Cascades Coast Starlight | Planned | $5–25m |
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7 sources · all primary
- ● Oregon Department of Transportation · Public Transportation (Rail and Public Transit Division) welcome page — the division's own statement of its programmes, including Passenger Rail, and its procurement and rail resources navigation. Read 14 September 2026, HTTP 200, 29,845 bytes. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Oregon Department of Transportation · Passenger Rail — ODOT's own page on the Amtrak Cascades service. States that the Oregon portion offers two daily round trips from Eugene to Seattle, that Amtrak Cascades serves 18 cities on 467 track miles between Vancouver BC and Eugene, that 951,397 passengers rode Amtrak Cascades in 2025, that the service is funded by ticket revenue with Washington and Oregon offsetting the difference between costs and revenue, and that the Oregon stations are Portland, Oregon City, Salem, Albany and Eugene. Read 14 September 2026, HTTP 200. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Oregon Department of Transportation · Amtrak Cascades - Oregon 2025 Annual Performance Report, ODOT Multimodal and Rail Services Unit, March 2026 (PDF, 14 pages, 1,652,526 bytes). Carries five-year Oregon ridership, customer on-time performance, the total operating cost, revenue and farebox recovery series for Oregon-funded trains 2021-2025, the 2025 accomplishments and the 2026-2028 timeline. (published 2026-03 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Oregon Department of Transportation · Oregon State Rail Plan — ODOT's own plan page. Read 14 September 2026, HTTP 200. States that the draft 2027 State Rail Plan is available for review and comment from 8 September to 23 October 2026 with a public hearing on 24 September 2026 before the Oregon Transportation Commission considers adoption. (published 2026-09-08 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Oregon Department of Transportation · Draft Oregon State Rail Plan 2027 (PDF, 199 pages, 15,850,098 bytes), published for comment 8 September 2026. Sections used: the existing rail system profile (two Class I railroads and 23 Class III short-line railroads, six of them switching railroads and terminal yards); the Amtrak Cascades service and rolling stock sections; the state-identified near-term and long-term passenger rail capital investments; Table 4-10 recent Oregon rail program funding 2025-2027; and Table 4-11 Connect Oregon rail funding. (published 2026-09-08 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Oregon Department of Transportation · Oregon Rail System — ODOT's own page on the state's rail system and the department's roles: track and railcar safety inspection, rail-roadway crossing projects, rail transit oversight, and partnership with Amtrak, WSDOT and the Canadian Minister of Transport on passenger rail service. Read 14 September 2026, HTTP 200. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● State of Oregon (Department of Administrative Services) · OregonBuys — the statewide procurement portal, a Periscope S2G (Jaggaer) instance. The public bid search at /bso/view/search/external/advancedSearchBid.xhtml answers curl: a GET returns the JSF form with its _csrf token and javax.faces.ViewState, and a PrimeFaces partial-ajax POST to the same address with javax.faces.source=bidSearchForm:j_idt378 returns the results table inline. Searched on 14 September 2026 for rail, railroad, track, crossing, locomotive, streetcar, ballast, turnout, passenger rail, light rail, Amtrak and Coos: no rail-scope solicitation was open. (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)
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