Slabtown Streetcars (Images of Rail)
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (695 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1467133558 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Historian Richard Thompson, a former museum director, school librarian, and trolley coordinator, has been fascinated by streetcars since riding them as a boy in the 1950s. . His photograph collection has served as a resource for five books in Arcadia Publishing’s Images of Rail series, which he hopes will spark a new interest, or nostalgic memories, for readers
His photograph collection has served as a resource for five books in Arcadia Publishing’s Images of Rail series, which he hopes will spark a new interest, or nostalgic memories, for readers. . Historian Richard Thompson, a former museum director, school librarian, and trolley coordinator, has been fascinated by streetcars since riding them as a boy in the 1950s
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 1910s, more than half of all rolling stock was manufactured in shops located at opposite ends of Northwest Twenty-third Avenue. All streetcars operating on the west side of the Willamette River, including those used on the seven lines that served Northwest Portland, were stored in Slabtown. When the end finally came in 1950, Slabtown residents were riding two of the l