Zooliner, a diesel-powered streamliner was built in 1958, continues to delight riders in Washington Park after fifty years. -- Video by Faith Cathcart; faithcathcart@news.oregonian.com Zoo's train ...

Restoring the Washington Park and Zoo Railway's original 2-mile route isn't completely off the table, but it would take time, money and community support. Bill Zavin was 13 years old in 1958 when when ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A new effort to restore the entire Washington Park and Zoo Railway is gaining steam. If you were around Portland in the late 1950s, you know it was a pretty big deal. For decades ...

U.S. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger of Oregon in 1959 promised that the Washington Park loop of the Oregon Zoo train would be “the most elaborate and far flung recreation railroad ever built in our land.” ...