TRANSIT SYSTEMS IN OREGON

PORTLAND AREA


PORTLAND/HISTORIC DETAIL

Transit History
Route History
Suburban Lines


Portland

Horse Car
1872-1892 - several companies
1892-1896 - Portland Consolidated Street Railway Co.
1889-1896 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars
1888-1903 - operated steam dummy
1890-1896 - operated cable cars

1896-1900 - Portland Railway Co.
1900-1904 - Portland Traction Co.
1904-1905 - Portland Consolidated Railway Co.
1905-1906 - Portland Railway Co.
1906-1924 - Portland Railway Light & Power Co.
1922 - buses introduced
1924-1930 - Portland Electric Power Co.
1930-1956 - Portland Traction Co.
1950 - streetcars discontinued
1936-1958 - operated trolleybuses

1956-1969 - Rose City Transit Co.

CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM (SINCE 1969)
Tri-Met


NEW REGIONAL TRANSIT SYSTEMS
Canby Area Transit (since 2002)
South Metro Area Rapid Transit (Wilsonville/since 1989)
Yamhill County Transit
Northwest Connector (Columbia County/additional counties)

HISTORIC INTERURBAN RAILWAYS
Operated in several directions from Portland


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