Links to websites, maps, books and articles that provide supporting information or more in-depth looks at certain parts of Portland’s streetcar history.

Websites

• bera.org – a list of all remaining electric streetcars that ever served in Portland – there are only 17 left out of hundreds of cars, three of which are in Old Spaghetti Factory restaurants.
• An eighteenth car, known as “Car No. 3” can be found outside the Milwaukie Historical Society’s museum. It originally served as a horse car in Vancouver, Washington but there is evidence it briefly served on the Cloverdale branch in Portland in the 1890s. Richard Thompson has written a brief history of this unique car [PDF link].
• John Miller’s look at the Metropolitan Railways’ Fulton Park line
• Oregon Electric Railway Museum Car Roster (including some of the few remaining Portland streetcars)
• Oregon Historical Society – Plans and drawings relating to public transportation in Oregon (a treasure trove of plans and elevations of buildings and streetcars)
• PDXHistory.com – Streetcars
• PDXHistory.com – Council Crest Trolleys
• PDXHistory.com – Interurbans
• Portland Streetcars 1870s–1950s
• Richard Thompson’s Portland Vintage Trolleys site (no longer updated)
• SP&S Employee Time Table Collection (a comprehensive collection of scanned timetables, including United Railways and Oregon Electric lines)
• TriMet – A History of Transit in Portland

Maps

• See the Maps category for a comprehensive list of maps and download sources.

Books

• Dill, T. and Grande, W. R. (1994). The Red Electrics: Southern Pacific’s Oregon interurban. Pacific Fast Mail.
• Engeman, R. H. (1969). And so made town and country one: the streetcar and the building of Portland, Oregon 1872–1920. Thesis, Reed College. [Link]