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old Carver line trolley exposed track
Portland and Oregon Company Railway was incorpo...
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Ghost Railroad Tracks

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Oregon City Interurban 1097 in downtown Oregon City (c.1931).
A tandem interurban electric makes it way throu...
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old Madison Street Bridge (1891-1910)
Built by the Mt. Tabor Street Railway Co. Open...
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old Steel Bridge (1889-c.1912)
Built by the Oregon Railway & Navigation Compan...
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Bridge Transfer Line (1915-1948)
Initiated in 1915 by merging parts of the exist...
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Hawthorne Line (1889-1936)
This early steam-dummy line originally running ...
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Mt. Tabor Trolley No. 52 Jumps Track, Kills Four (1897)
On April 28, 1897, Car No. 52 of the Mt. Tabor ...
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Broadway Line (1903-1948)
From 1903 t0 1913 this line crossed the Burnsid...
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Depot-Morrison Line (1907-1923).
The amalganization of numerous pre-existing lin...
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Transfer Point to Cablecar Trestle (1896-1904).
Portland Traction Co. electrified the Portland ...
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Bottom of Portland Cablecar Trestle, & Powerhouse (1890-1904).
The base of the Portland Heights cable-car tres...
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East Ankeny trolley barn.
Before the Great Depression Portland had the na...
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Richmond Line (1888-1936)
The Richmond Trolley service terminus was at 42...
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Trolley makes it way through intersection at Morrison & Grand (c.1930)
Looking east up Morrison from Grand Ave. Up Mo...
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Laurelhurst, the Addition with Character
One of the secrets of the expansion of Portland...
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No. 539 E. Ankeny-Bound at 2nd & SW Morrison.
Based on the automobiles I'd put this photo in ...
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Old trolley tracks under Hawthorne viaduct.
These tracks clearly are coming from the Hawtho...
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old Morrison/Mt. Tabor Line trolley tracks.
Narrow guage. Interesting because they run out...
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old trolley tracks across the Burnside Bridge
Roadwork on the Burnside Bridge in 2002 exposed...
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Mt. Tabor Car #438 near 57th & Belmont.
The "S-S" on the front of the car stands for "S...
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Sellwood Trolley Administrative Offices.
Built 1905. Administrative office for the PRL&P...
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Sunnyside Trolley No. 656 at 33rd & Belmont (c.1915)
Trolley 656 stopped at 33rd and Belmont, circa ...
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Brooklyn Line (1903-1927)
The City & Suburban Railway Company commenced s...
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Irvington-Jefferson Line (1890-1938)
The Jefferson and Irvington lines, each older l...
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Top of Portland Cablecar Trestle (1896-1904).
A cable car (on its way downhill) a few blocks ...
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Near the top of the Portland Heights Cablecar Trestle during construction (c.1889 ?)
Near the top of the Portland Heights Line cable...
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Old Bridge Transfer Line trolley tracks.
Remnants of the Bridge Transfer Line trolley tr...
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St. Johns Line (1888-1937)
In late 1888 the Willamette Bridge Railway Co. ...
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Trolley Wreck (November 10, 1915)
Car 649 had reached the end of its line to the ...
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Trolley on the Hawthorne Bridge.
Trolley Car No. 1102 departing downtown Portland.
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Bell Rose Interurban No. 1006 departs Water Street Yards.
Bell Rose No. 1006, a 1907 American Car Co. Bri...
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Torn-Up Trolley Tracks.
The City was digging up Taylor and had to remov...
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Sellwood Trolley Powerstation.
Trolley powerstation constructed in in 1905 by ...
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Sellwood Trolley Barn (1905-2005).
Built in 1905. The cars of the Sellwood, Eastmo...
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Main Entrance to the 1905 Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition.
The main entrance to the 1905 Lewis & Clark Cen...
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Woodstock Trolley Barn (demolished)
This wooden trolley carbarn & powerhouse was bu...
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18th & Alder trolley carbarn collapses into Tanner Creek Sewer (March 18, 1904)
The Multnomah Street Railway Co. built this tro...
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Trolley Car No. 82 Jumps Tracks (June 21, 1903)
Portland Railway Company Car No. 82 carrying 32...
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Alberta Line (1903-1949)
Portland Railway Co. initated the Alberta Line ...
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Former PDX Trolley.
Now a joke shop!
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Trolley Car Barn (Depot-Morrison Line)
The Depot-Morrison Line ran from 1892-1923. Th...
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Eastmoreland Line (1912-1926)

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Errol Heights Line (1913-1926)

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Map Details:
PDX's Historical Trolley Lines
Electric trolley service arrived in Portland in 1889 when the Willamette Bridge Railway Co. initiated service across the old Steel Bridge on the existing Albina horse-drawn trolley line. Seventeen years & twenty-odd companies later, Portland Railway Co. and Oregon Water Power & Railway Co. consolidated in 1906 to become Portland Railway, Light and Power Company (the predecessor of PGE) and the city's de facto streetcar (and electricity) provider, possessing 28 streetcar and interurban lines. By 1924, Portland claimed the 3rd largest narrow gauge streetcar system in the nation. But the boom was over, and the Great Depression saw the replacement of trolleys with electric buses, and especially gasoline-buses. WWII extended the life of Portland's trolleys briefly due to gasoline & rubber rationing, even seeing some older tracks being chipped out of the pavement, but by 1950 all city trolley lines were discontinued. The cars were usually burned on the banks of the Willamette and their steel parts recycled. In 1956 the Hawthorne Bridge was remodeled, without tracks, and in 1958 the last interurban trolley line (Oregon City) was discontinued. However, remnants and hints of its existance survive today. There is a decent amount of information and several troves of photos of Portland's historic trolley system on the internet (although it can be a bit scattered and disorganized at times). Those sites (namely Portland's Vintage Trolleys and PDXHistory) are the source of the majority of images and information on this map.
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