The growing log jam under the railroad bridge across the Willamette River in Albany is slightly mysterious in at least a couple of ways.
Mystery 1: Why do log jams form on that bridge and not on, for instance, the two Albany highway bridges or the piers of the former steel bridge that now hold up the power lines spanning the river?
Mystery 2, or at least a question: How long will that log jam persist? It’s been there for a few years, getting bigger every winter. Will it eventually break up and float downstream? Or will it have to be dismantled, the way the railroad took apart a similar accumulation on the circular center pier in 2012?…