Transit Maps: Kenton Traction Company

Project: A Map of Electric Streetcars in Portland, Oregon, 1915

August 22, 2021

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1915, Cameron Booth, interurban, Kenton Traction Company, Oregon, Portland, Portland & Troutdale Electric Company, Portland Railway Light & Power Company, streetcar, United Railways, USA

Here’s a map that’s been a long time coming, and one that I think has been worth the wait. I’ve wanted to make a transit map of historical streetcar routes in my adopted home town of Portland, Oregon for at least five years now, but it’s always seemed like a very daunting task. The success of my historical Spokane streetcar map from earlier this year finally gave me the tools I needed to get this […]

New Project/Work-in-Progress – Historical Map: Streetcar Lines of Portland, Oregon, 1920

July 23, 2016

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1920, Cameron Booth, commuter rail, Kenton Traction Company, Oregon, Oregon Electric, passenger rail, Portland, Portland Railway Light & Power Company, PRL&P, Southern Pacific, streetcar, United Railway, USA, work in progress

Despite Portland once having one of the largest streetcar networks in the United States, finding reliable, empirical information about it is surprisingly difficult. Books about the history of the streetcar – like Richard Thompson’s series of books or John Labbe’s Fares Please! – tend to be more photographs and captions than exhaustive detail, internet sources are incomplete and at times contradictory, and even contemporaneous sources are frustratingly incorrect. A much-referenced Pittmon map of streetcar lines […]