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2012 Archives / Railroad

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...

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2012 Archives / Railroad

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...