Editing Baker City, Oregon (section)

==Transportation==
[[File:45th parallel sign - Baker County, Oregon.jpg|thumbnail|The [[45th parallel north|45th Parallel]] sign near Baker City, on Interstate 84|223x223px]]
[[Interstate 84 in Oregon|Interstate 84]] (I-84) runs along the eastern edge of Baker City, while [[U.S. Route 30 in Oregon|U.S. Route 30]] passes through its downtown. [[Oregon Route 7]] runs between I-84 in Baker City and [[Sumpter, Oregon|Sumpter]] and [[Austin, Oregon|Austin]] to the west. [[Oregon Route 86]] heads north and east past the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center and on to the cities of [[Richland, Oregon|Richland]] and [[Halfway, Oregon|Halfway]].<ref>{{cite map|title=The Road Atlas|publisher=Rand McNally & Company  |year=2008 |pages=84−85|isbn= 978-0-528-93961-7 }}</ref>

The city owns and operates the {{convert|398|acre|ha|adj=on}} [[Baker City Municipal Airport]], located about {{convert|3|mi|km|0}} north of downtown in rural Baker County.<ref>{{cite web|title=Airport |url=http://www.bakercity.com/community/airport |publisher=City of Baker City |access-date=2012-03-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219212236/http://www.bakercity.com/community/airport |archive-date=2012-02-19 }}</ref> Northeast Oregon Public Transit provides hourly trolley service around Baker City, as well as twice daily bus service to La Grande, on weekdays.

Baker City is served by the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] (UP), originally the [[Oregon Railway and Navigation Company]] (OR&N). In 1887, the UP acquired a long-term lease on the OR&N, which connected to existing UP track and the Oregon Short Line at [[Huntington, Oregon|Huntington]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Culp|first=Edwin D.|title=Stations West, the Story of the Oregon Railways|publisher=Bonanza Books|location=New York|year=1978|pages=44−47|oclc=4751643}}</ref> The UP provides freight service but not passenger service to Baker City.<ref name="Chamber of Commerce">{{cite web|title=Our Community |publisher=Baker County Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau |url=http://www.visitbaker.com/community/ |year=2011 |access-date=2012-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319084012/http://www.visitbaker.com/community/ |archive-date=2012-03-19 }}</ref> Between 1977 and 1997 the city was a regular stop along the former route of [[Amtrak]]'s ''[[Pioneer (Amtrak)|Pioneer]]'' between [[Chicago]], [[Salt Lake City]], [[Boise]], [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], and [[Seattle]].<ref name="pioneerstudy">{{cite web| author=Amtrak| title=Pioneer Route Passenger Rail Study| year=2009| access-date=2012-03-19| publisher=National Railroad Passenger Corporation| url=http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/BlobServer?blobcol=urldata&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobkey=id&blobwhere=1249200496429&blobheader=application%2Fpdf&blobheadername1=Content-disposition&blobheadervalue1=attachment;filename=Amtrak_PioneerServiceStudy.pdf| archive-date=2011-10-27| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027203053/http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/BlobServer?blobcol=urldata&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobkey=id&blobwhere=1249200496429&blobheader=application%2Fpdf&blobheadername1=Content-disposition&blobheadervalue1=attachment;filename=Amtrak_PioneerServiceStudy.pdf}}</ref>