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Willamette Shore Trolley

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Willamette Shore Trolley
Willamette Shore Trolley
Willamette Shore Trolley
Willamette Shore Trolley
Willamette Shore Trolley
Willamette Shore Trolley
Willamette Shore Trolley
Willamette Shore Trolley
Willamette Shore Trolley
Willamette Shore Trolley
Willamette Shore Trolley
Willamette Shore Trolley
Willamette Shore Trolley
Willamette Shore Trolley
Willamette Shore Trolley
Phone:
+1 503-697-7436

Address:
311 N State St, Lake Oswego, OR 97034, USA

The Willamette Shore Trolley is a heritage railroad or heritage streetcar that operates along the west bank of the Willamette River between Portland and Lake Oswego in the U.S. state of Oregon. The right-of-way is owned by group of local-area governments who purchased it in 1988 in order to preserve it intact for possible rail transit use in the future. Streetcar excursion service began operating on a trial basis in 1987, lasting about three months, and regular operation on a long-term basis began in 1990. The Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society has been the line's operator since 1995. The railroad offers passenger excursions using a historic or replica-historic trolley on a former Southern Pacific line previously known as the Jefferson Street Branch Line. The line runs for 5.5 miles , including a passage through the 0.25-mile-long Elk Rock Tunnel. The Lake Oswego terminal is downtown, alongside State Street just south of A Avenue. The location of the Portland terminal has varied over the years, but since fall 2003 it has been at SW Bancroft Street and Moody Avenue in the new high-density South Waterfront neighborhood under construction, a location that was only one block south of the Portland Streetcar terminus at SW Lowell Street and Moody Avenue after the latter's extension in 2007. However, all service on the Willamette Shore line was suspended in July 2010, when the line's only streetcar broke down. In early 2013, a lease was secured on a replacement streetcar, a Gomaco-built faux-Vintage Trolley, to enable a resumption of service on the southernmost portion of the line, and that section of the line reopened in August 2014. Service over the northern half of the line, to Bancroft Street in Portland, was restored on July 21, 2017.
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