This brochure starts out aiming to sell Portland as a location for conventions but ends up suggesting a ten-day tour of the Portland area. The tour includes four days in Portland, two on the Columbia River Highway and Mt. Hood, two in Astoria, and one in “Salem-McMinnville or some other loop trip.” That’s only nine days; for some reason — perhaps the writer couldn’t think of anything else — the tenth day goes back to Mt. Hood.
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“Five transcontinental railway systems have their terminus at Portland,” claims the brochure. I count only two, and perhaps three: Union Pacific for certain; Southern Pacific to the extent that its northern terminus was Portland; and Northern Pacific only because it had a line from its western terminus in Tacoma to Portland. Continue reading