Not to be confused with the better-known and more successful Multnomah Street Railway Company (1882–1888).

An early company that formed to build a streetcar line from East Portland through Albina to the Columbia River and to operate a ferry across to Vancouver from there. They also operated the first Albina ferry, but were engaged in a protracted and bitter legal battle known as “The Ferry War” with another company that also claimed the route.

Some track was laid in Albina before local citizens got a court injunction in January 1883 that halted any further construction. The city of East Portland rescinded the company’s streetcar franchise for that city in January 1885, and despite some further attempts at regaining it, the streetcar side of the business seems to have faded away by the end of the year.

The Vancouver ferry was still operated by the company, but this was sold in June 1888 to the Portland & Vancouver Railway Company, which had succeeded in building a street railway line to the south shore of the Columbia River where the Multnomah Railway Company had failed.

Lines

• None – a short section of track was laid in Albina, but no cars ever ran.

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