Multnomah Crossing
By Tim Lyman – Published March 14, 2013 Capitol Highway crossing the Oregon Electric Railway tracks. Capitol Highway opened October 22, 1916, but the tracks of the Oregon Electric Railroad (today’s Multnomah Boulevard) remained...
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Living on Maplewood Road
Posted by Tim Lyman – Published May 6, 2019 *missing photos from previous site article Written by Patti Waitman-Ingebretsen “The Ransom girl” In 1950, my parents, Don and Mildred Ransom, purchased a new ranch...
Maplewood Trestle
By Tim Lyman – January 6, 2014 The second Maplewood School can be seen in the middle right. When the Oregon Electric Railroad opened for passenger service on January 30, 1908, it was a...
City and West Portland Park Railway
By Tim Lyman – Published November 16, 2012 About 1890 hopeful speculators started to carve up southwest Portland into lots. The first serious development was West Portland Park in 1889. Thomas Alexander Wood formed...
Maplewood Station
By Tim Lyman – October 8, 2012 On May 14, 1906 the Oregon Electric Railway was organized “to construct and operate a system of railroads, either single track or double track, with power to...