Links to websites, maps, books, articles and videos 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.
• Lewis & Dryden Atlas of Portland & Vicinity, 1890s: a remarkable document that shows many of the early streetcar lines in great detail – though some are what was planned rather than what was actually built!.

PDFs

Longer historical documents that I have PDFs of in my archives.

PTC and PEPCO Rosters, 1924–1939

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. Note: 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 it may possibly have briefly served the Cloverdale branch in Portland in the 1890s. Richard Thompson has written a brief history of this unique car [PDF link].
• The City of Milwaukie’s page on the history of the Oregon City line.
• John Miller’s look at the Metropolitan Railways’ Fulton Park line
• Multnomah County SAIL website – old plats and survey maps. A treasure trove of information, but can take a while to find what you’re after
• 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
• Pullman Palace Car Company Photographs database at the Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives – an amazing resource of builder’s photographs of Pullman cars: search by operating company name.