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Vancouver line
A Vancouver line streetcar crossing the Interstate Bridge in 1917
Overview
StatusDemolished
OwnerPortland and Vancouver Railway Company (1888–1892)
Portland Consolidated Street Railway Company (1892–1895)
Portland Railway Company (1895–1908)
Portland Railway, Light and Power Company (1908–1940)
LocaleEast Portland and Albina, Oregon
Vancouver, Washington
Service
TypeStreetcar
History
Opened1888
ClosedSeptember 1940
Technical
ElectrificationYes

The Vancouver line was a streetcar route that operated between present-day Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington in the United States.

History

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On April 24, 1888, the City of East Portland authorized Ordinance No. 646,[1] granting Frank Dekum and Richard L. Durham...[2] The line ran from the Stark Street Ferry near the banks of the Willamette River in East Portland north through Albina along Union Avenue (present-day Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard). The line north of Columbia Boulevard was on a trestle bridge above the marshy lowland along the Columbia River. The line ended at the Columbia River opposite of Vancouver, Washington, where a ferry...[3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ City of Portland (1905). Devlin, Thomas C. (ed.). The General Ordinances of the City of Portland. Presses of Anderson & Duniway Company. p. 103. Retrieved January 24, 2022 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Harper, Will; et al. (1990). "History of the Albina Plan Area" (PDF). Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Portland State University. pp. 13–17. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  3. ^ Scott 1924, pp. 200–205.

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