A line that would have branched off Main Street and headed through the Vancouver military reservation on East Fifth Street to East Vancouver on the far side. The line seems to have first been proposed in 1911 by the Washington–Oregon Corporation, but stringent requirements were placed on the line by the US Government in return for a right-of-way across the Vancouver military reservation. These restrictions made construction difficult and work stalled completely for a number of years. With no evidence of progress, the franchise was finally revoked by the Vancouver city council.

The Washington–Oregon Corporation’s successor, the North Coast Power Company does not seem to have pursued the franchise any further. However, a new street railway company, the Portland, Vancouver & Northern, attempted to gain a similar franchise just as the previous one was being revoked in 1915. This too came to nothing, though they did manage to get the required Act of Congress passed in June 1916.

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