Portland Waterfront

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9 Memorial to the Japanese imprisoned during WW II	10	11	12
13	14 The Saturday Market	15	16
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21	22	23 Food trucks are everywhere in Portland	24
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33	34 The waterfront park	35	36
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45	46	47 At Naito and Taylor: Mill Ends Park, world's smallest	48
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57	58 A tour of the bridges starts with the stone indicating the highest historic flood on the WIllamette	59 The Oregon Departmtation HQent of Transport	60 In this traffic monitoring room, a lone operator can select streams from 200 freeway cameras onto a wall of displays
61 When an incident occurs, any camera can be manually pivoted and zoomed	62 Steel Bridge, the oldest in town	63 A working grain elevator	64 Modern freeway construction
65	66 The lower deck of Steel Bridge is BNSF freight and Amtrak	67	68
69 The upper deck is for MAX light rail	70	71	72
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77	78 Here comes the Amtrak!	79	80
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85 RAising Steel Bridge for a small boat. The river is ubusually high because of this year's wet winter	86	87	88 On the east bank, this freeway spur was cancelled in favor of light rail
89	90	91 On the East Bank Esplanade, a floating footbridge	92 The red poles are piles driven into the bottom. The bridge rides up and down with the tides and waves.
93 Approachiongthe Burnside Bridge, which carries a major surface street	94	95 Although higher than Steel Bridge, it must be opened for the largest ships	96
97 An operator in this green tower raises the bascule arms when necessary	98	99	100 Heading up onto the Birnside
101 The street deck	102 The Esplanade below us	103	104
105	106	107 Tim, the bridge operator	108 Climbing into the operator's control tower
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113	114	115 The bascule arms opening	116
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121 Only in Portland: when the drawbridge lowers, a troop of Santa impersonators passes by	122 The Saturday Market below us	123	124 Along the east bank of the Willamette
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133 Near the Oregon International Science Museum, a statue of Vera Katz, who funded the trail along the east bank	134	135	136
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149	150 A cement plant near Ross Island	151 Crossing back to the west bank...	152 ...to the Blues Festival area on the waterfrint park at the west end of the bridge
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