Identifier: electricrailway431914newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ead-way; (3) automobile chairs, run by storage battery,about 150 being planned for, and (4) push chairs andjinrickishas, about 150 of each. February 14, 1914.) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 359 New Southern Pacific Line in Oregon This Line, Known as the Portland, Eugene & Eastern Railway, Has Just Put in Operation 109 Miles ofTrack and Will Comprise When Completed 350 Miles -The Trolley Voltage Is 1500 Jan. 18 saw the initiation of interurban service onthe first unit of the Southern Pacific Companys elec-trification in the Willamette Valley of western Oregon,constructed and operated as the Portland, Eugene &Eastern Railway, of which Robert E. Strahorn is presi-dent. On Saturday, Jan. 17, the Portland Commercial The part of the Willamette Valley line just placed inservice is known as the McMinnville Loop and covers109 miles of track. It came into being by the conver-sion from steam to electric power of the old Yamhilland West Side divisions of the Southern Pacific sys-tem in Oregon.
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Portland, Eugene & Eastern—New Passenger Station at McMinnville Club, a noted organization of the Northwest, baptized,christened or consecrated the service by operating achartered train over the new electric loop, carryingrailroad officials, city officials, prominent citizens and Electrification of first unitSOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES -^•IN OREGON «sSr- TJnder auspicesofPortland,Eugene&Eastern Ry. FOREST GROVE ,gw~ Dtlley-

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