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This. Oregon appears to be cooked.
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Always has been.
A while back I was reading about what is locally known as "the railroad cut" - a deep man-made ravine that cuts across the peninsula between the Willamette and Columbia rivers(giving a route from the west side of the Willamette, across that river on a bridge, then across the peninsula, and then across a bridge at the Columbia river into Washington - nevermind the fact that there was already a parallel route through a tunnel a couple of miles to the east - the tunnel is a UP route, and the cut is BNSF. Pretty sure the tunnel has always been UP, as the yard just south of there is quite old - but the cut was originally a regional railroad IIRC). It seems that the Portland City Council conspired with the railroad to do this, largely to cut off road transportation to the small city of St Johns, which was getting the majority of the shipping traffic at their docks - well, Portland wanted that business at THEIR docks! This also led to St Johns being incorporated into Portland later on.
So yeah, dirty tricks on a massive scale are nothing new to Oregon.