(former US 99E) north of Oregon City

Photos progress southward and are generally southbound.


It surprised me to learn this is the oldest bridge on this page. This unassuming stringer bridge over a railroad in northern Portland opened in 1916.


OR 99E is Dr. MLK, Jr. Blvd. in Portland, and it finds light rail at Holladay St. I think the rail icon is unnecessary. It's a red light. You should stop for that alone.


To the west, the Burnside Bridge.


Ahead, the railroad crossing is so confusing that ODOT (or Portland?) threw in a circle shield by accident. The light rail heads west to the new Tilikum Crossing bridge, while a new Grand Ave. viaduct awaits overhead, if you can figure out where to turn or not turn.


They replaced a 1937 viaduct with this... this... what is all this?


To the left, the cable-stayed Tilikum Crossing. To the right, the double-decked Marquam Bridge on I-5 and the south-side interchange with I-405. Both cross the Willamette River.


To the southwest, becoming the northwesst as I cross under it, the 1926 Ross Island Bridge carrying US 26.


I leave Portland between the Bybee Bridge and the Springwater Corridor Trail. Bybee Bridge was cooler when it was original, but they at least added some classic touches to the replacement. I find it odd that Bybee Blvd. gets a named bridge over just a road and a railroad.


I've inserted some NB photos in Milwaukie for the crackly signs and the undersized second OR 224 shield. If I were heading to OR 224, I would turn right on Harrison St. and get there more directly, only risking a railroad grade crossing. Left gives you grade separation but makes you make a left and go through more signals.


Heading back south again in Milwaukie under the Portland & Western Railroad.


I'm on McLoughlin Blvd., which I'm willing to bet is named for John McLoughlin, because that's the namesake of this 1933 bridge over the Clackamas River.


Side views looking east at this Conde McCullough design.

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