Slabtown Streetcars

by Richard Thompson

Book Overview

No area of Portland, Oregon, played a more important role in street railway history than Northwest Portland and the neighborhood known as Slabtown. In 1872, the city's first streetcars passed close to Slabtown as they headed for a terminus in the North End. Slabtown was also home to the first streetcar manufacturing factory on the West Coast. In fact, until locally built streetcars began to be replaced by trolleys from large national builders in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467133558
• ISBN13: 9781467133555
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"