A Brill Master Unit streetcar on the track alongside Lone Fir cemetery in 1948. This appears to be a chartered fan trip rather than regularly scheduled service, as the roll sign reads “Broadway” and not “Mount Tabor.”

A Brill Master Unit streetcar on the track alongside Lone Fir cemetery in 1948. This appears to be a chartered fan trip rather than regularly scheduled service, as the roll sign reads “Broadway” and not “Mount Tabor.”

Mainly notable in the context of this research as the first terminus of the Sunnyside steam motor line at 20th and Morrison, and the fact that later streetcars on the Mount Tabor and Sunnyside lines ran right along the southern boundary of the cemetery. A common misconception is that the cars ran through the cemetery, but the right-of-way was purchased by the Willamette Street Railway Company right from the start in 1888 – originally, a fence separated the two.

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