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Slabtown Streetcars (Images of Rail)

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No area of Portland, Oregon, played a more important role in street railway history than Northwest Portland and the neighborhood referred to as Slabtown. In 1872, the city’s first streetcars passed with reference to Slabtown as they headed for a terminus in the North End. Slabtown used to be also home to the first streetcar manufacturing factory at the West Coast. In truth, until in the community built streetcars started to get replaced by trolleys from large national builders in the 1910s, more than half of all rolling stock used to be manufactured in shops positioned at opposite ends of Northwest Twenty-third Avenue. All streetcars operating at the west side of the Willamette River, including those used at the seven lines that served Northwest Portland, were stored in Slabtown. When the end in any case came in 1950, Slabtown residents were riding two of the last three city lines.

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