Not to be confused with the earlier Portland Consolidated Street Railway Company.
The result of a merger of the City & Suburban Railway Company and the first Portland Railway Company, this company was briefly known as the Portland & Suburban Railway Company before it was discovered that there was an existing company with a similar name, forcing a hurried incorporation under a new name.
While the company was short-lived, it is notable for providing extensive and widely-praised streetcar service to the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, with a number of lines rerouted directly to the fairgrounds in NW Portland. Service in peak periods during the Fair sometimes had headways of 30 seconds between cars, with tens of thousands of people moved each day.
The company also briefly toyed with the idea of gaining a franchise for a street railway in Vancouver, Washington along Main street to the race track in September 1905.
| Important Dates: | September 1, 1904 – Shareholders universally agree to merge the City & Suburban and the Portland Railway Company into the new Portland & Suburban Railway Company. October 18, 1904 – Incorporated as Portland Consolidated Railway Company. October 31, 1904 – All preceding properties fully consolidated into company. June 1, 1905 – Streetcar service to the Lewis & Clark Exposition begins. November 1, 1905 – Assets transferred to the second Portland Railway Co. | | --- | --- | | Preceded By: | ‣ ‣ | | Succeeded By: | ‣ |