Our Station Master’s Office banquet room, complete with a custom audio-visual center featuring flat screen TV, DVD and internet services, was once the sole domain of the Station Master, who no doubt held a party or two of his own there. The original railway Passenger Ticket Counter now serves as the curved center section of the bar. Many early artifacts are displayed including a ladder for attic access and a ticket making machine. The windows are all original, having been recased and rehung. Indoors one finds the original golden painted radiators that heat the building, craftsman style chandeliers (reproduced from a 1914 interior photograph) radiating their own warmth and ambiance. 100-year-old ‘railroad graffiti’ adorns much of the hand-hewn brickwork. While enjoying your visit and award-winning cuisine, take a moment to observe and appreciate the numerous original and still functioning features of this historic building: over 40,000 Mid-west red roof tiles, hand chiseled exterior granite corbels and massive wooden beams. Now, after an extensive renovation as a restaurant and a bar and designation as a National Historic Landmark, this true gem of Southern Oregon architecture once again proudly serves the community. From 1955 to 1996 the depot was abandoned or used only as a freight office. After just two glorious decades passenger rail service declined due in part to the Great Depression and the increasing popularity of automobile travel. This new passenger depot was completed and dedicated in October of the same year, a mere nine months from start to finish. In February of 1910 ground was broken for a new brick railroad depot to replace the older, wooden structure located south of Main Street. By 1910 Medford, renamed by a railroad engineer, was a rapidly growing, prosperous community and Jackson County had become one of the fastest growing counties in the United States. The city of Medford was born in the late 1880’s when the Central Oregon and Pacific railroad pushed south through a town called ‘Middleford’ in the Rogue Valley. We welcome you to a classic American restaurant and bar and a tantalizing taste of oldtown Oregon history. If an attendant is not present at the pumps or otherwise unable to monitor whether a person with disabilities needs assistance, the station must provide a sign that directs people with a disability in the ways they can alert an attendant to receive refueling assistance.Porters is nostalgically named in honor of all the men and women who work professionally aboard passenger trains bringing food, drink, courtesy and a warm smile to their traveling patrons. For stations that are providing attended self-service, those stations must provide refueling assistance to customers with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Oregon law require gas stations to provide equal access to fuel for people with disabilities. If our office receives information that a station may not be following the rules, we will reach out to them to provide education to assist them.Īttended self-service and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): The OSFM will continue to receive complaints about compliance with Oregon's self-serve gas provisions. Will the OSFM be monitoring gas stations to make sure they are following the rules? Sanitation measures will vary station to station, and some facilities may continue to do additional cleaning of equipment. Gasoline is categorized as a Class 1 flammable liquid. See this map for areas where self-service is allowed. With the temporary rules change ending, customers can no longer pump their own gas, except in counties where it is allowed by state statute. See the Oregon Health Authority website for recommendations about wearing face masks and washing one's hands. For those visiting stations with self-service and who touch a shared surface, please continue to practice safe hand hygiene by washing your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds and not touching your face. Customers will continue to interact with gas station staff, for self-serve where it is still allowed and for attendant service in the rest of Oregon. Gas service in Oregon will vary facility by facility. What about health issues and visits to gas stations: Self-serve is no longer allowed in areas of the state where self-serve rules had been suspended to address the impacts of COVID-19. See this map where self-serve is allowed. Starting May 24, 2020, Oregonians may pump their own gas only where allowed by Oregon statute. Where in the state can I now pump my own gas? Self-service for gasoline will no longer be allowed in parts of the state where it had been temporarily allowed. All provisions of this temporary self-service rules change will sunset at the start of May 24, 2020. The temporary suspension for rules requiring attendants to pump gas at gas stations in Oregon ends on May 23, 2020. Can Oregonians still pump their own gas now?
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