By Jayson Jacoby, Editor, Baker City Herald; October 23, 2019
Enough time has passed — 22 years — since the last Amtrak passenger train rolled to a stop in Baker City that some people likely have only a hazy memory, if any at all, of seeing the train parked at the former station just north of Broadway Street.
A group of people who think 22 years is too long for Baker County and the rest of Northeastern Oregon to go without train service plans to meet Saturday at La Grande to talk about their campaign to get Amtrak back on our local rails.