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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 a group of local-area governments who purchased it in 1988 in order to preserve it for potential future rail transit. 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.

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  • 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 a group of local-area governments who purchased it in 1988 in order to preserve it for potential future rail transit. 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 (9 km), including a passage through the 0.25-mile-long (0.4 km) Elk Rock Tunnel. The Lake Oswego terminal is downtown, alongside State Street (Oregon Route 43) 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. (en)
  • Willamette Shore Trolley är en amerikansk museispårväg mellan Portland och Lake Oswego i Oregon. Trafiken upprätthålls av den 1957 bildade ideella föreningen Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society, som också driver spårvägsmuseet Oregon Electric Railway Museum. Den banvall som nu används av Willamette Shore Trolley anlades i mitten av 1880-talet som "Portland and Willamette Valley Railway", som började med passagerartrafik med ånglokomotivdragna tåg 1887. Denna gav Oswego en järnvägslinje till Portland, vilken ersatte båttransport och dåtidens dåliga vägar. Linjen köptes av Southern Pacific Company, som konverterade banan till normalspår och elektrifierade den 1914. Detta ledde till ett högsta passagerarantal 1920, då 64 pendeltåg gick varje dag mellan städerna. Passagerartrafiken lades ned 1929, men godstrafik fortsatte till 1983. År 1984 lämnade Southern Pacific banvallstillståndet (""), varefter berörda kommuner i området bildade ett kommunförbund för att överta linjen och bevara en "right-of-way" där för framtida kollektivtrafik. För kommunernas räkning träffade Portlands stad 1987 ett hyresavtal med Southern Pacific. Det ingick också en köpoption, vilken inlöstes året därpå av kommunförbundet. Willamette Shore Trolley är nio kilometer lång och går längs västra stranden av Willamette River. Trafik har bedrivits på permanent basis av Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society från 1995 till 2010, då den enda använda spårvagnen gick sönder. Trafik återupptogs på hela linjen 2017. Ändhållplatsen i Lake Oswego ligger i centrum vid State Street. Ändhållplatsen i Portland har sedan 2003 legat vid korsningen Southwest Bancroft Street och Moody Avenue i den nya stadsdelen South Waterfront. Den ligger ett kvarter söder om ändhållplatsen för vid korsningen Southwest Lowell Street/Moody Avenue. (sv)
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  • 1987-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • Operating
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  • Car 513 passing the new Sellwood Bridge in 2018 (en)
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  • None; electricity supplied by portable diesel generator (en)
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  • Portland (en)
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  • Clackamas / Multnomah counties, Oregon, USA, in Portland metropolitan area (en)
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  • Willamette Shore Railway (en)
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  • Lake Oswego (en)
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  • Heritage streetcar, seasonal operation (en)
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  • 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 a group of local-area governments who purchased it in 1988 in order to preserve it for potential future rail transit. 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. (en)
  • Willamette Shore Trolley är en amerikansk museispårväg mellan Portland och Lake Oswego i Oregon. Trafiken upprätthålls av den 1957 bildade ideella föreningen Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society, som också driver spårvägsmuseet Oregon Electric Railway Museum. Den banvall som nu används av Willamette Shore Trolley anlades i mitten av 1880-talet som "Portland and Willamette Valley Railway", som började med passagerartrafik med ånglokomotivdragna tåg 1887. Denna gav Oswego en järnvägslinje till Portland, vilken ersatte båttransport och dåtidens dåliga vägar. (sv)
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