Portland, Oregon, streetcar blueprints and drawings [manuscript], 1890-1943.

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Portland, Oregon, streetcar blueprints and drawings [manuscript], 1890-1943.

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The collection consists of blueprints and other scale drawings of street railway equipment, rolling stock (including interurban trains and trolley buses), station buildings, and other structures. Buildings were located primarily in Portland, but also in Albany, Astoria, and other Oregon locales. Included are plans of a proposed hotel building in Albany, Oregon, to be built by the Oregon Electric Railway Company. Most of the materials date from the 1900s through the early 1930s and originated with the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company and the Portland Electric Power Company.

3 cubic feet (5 oversize folders)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Portland Electric Power Company

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The first public transportation system in Portland, Oregon, began in 1872 as a horsecar line on First Street. When, in 1891, the separate cities of East Portland and Albina joined Portland to form a single city of 88,200 people, the City & Suburban Railway Company merged out of the Willamette Bridge Railway Company and the old Third Street horsecar system. Most of the remaining street railways joined into the Portland Consolidated Street Railway Company. In 1893, the East Side Railway Compan...

Portland Railway, Light, and Power Company

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The first public transportation system in Portland, Oregon, began in 1872 as a horsecar line on First Street. From the guide to the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company charts, 1891-1910, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) The first public transportation system in Portland, Oregon, began in 1872 as a horsecar line on First Street. When, in 1891, the separate cities of East Portland and Albina joined Portland to form a single city of 88...