All aboard Cascade Web Development's

Cool Spaces: All aboard Cascade Web Development's railcar office


The Portland Business Journal ventures to the eastern banks of the Willamette River to call on a modern Web company operating in an old fashioned railcar.
Five employees at Cascade Web Development share space in a vintage railcar that still sits on, and occasionally moves on, actual rails.
Cool Spaces: A look inside Cascade Web's railcar office
The office is within shouting distance of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry AND the Oregon Rail Heritage Museum, which means it gets plenty of questions from inquisitive visitors, both older rail buffs and curious children.
Cascade Web’s office car is the latest Portland workplace featured in “Cool Spaces,” an occasional series highlighting unique, special and intriguing spaces.
Cascade Web moved into its compact digs about three years ago after an executive pedaled past the track-mounted office park at Southeast Water and Division Place and thought it looked cool.
It originally was about a quarter mile south of its current location. Construction crews pushed it north to make way for construction of the rail museum and nearby street work.
“It was the easiest office move ever,” an exec said.
Chris Hammond, account manager, and Graeme Byrd, director of business development and client services, shared the story behind Cascade Web's unusual workplace.