Links to websites, maps, books and articles that provide supporting information or more in-depth looks at certain parts of Portland’s streetcar history.
Maps
See the Maps category for a comprehensive list of maps and download sources.
PDFs
Longer historical documents that I have PDFs of in my archives.
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].