The Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society is a non-profit organization in the U.S. state of Oregon, founded in 1957. It owns and operates a railroad museum for electric railroad and streetcar ent
Two of the OERHS's streetcars in operation at its museum, in Brooks, Oregon. Double-decker No. 48 has been in the group's collection since 1964.
From 1996 until 2010, this OERHS-owned streetcar, built in 1932 for Portland, served the Willamette Shore Trolley line.
Willamette Shore Trolley
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The Willamette Shore Trolley is a heritage railroad that operates along the west bank of the Willamette River between Portland and Lake Oswego in the U.S. state of Oregon. The right-of-way is owned by
Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society
…operates a railroad museum for electric railroad and streetcar enthusiasts, and also operates (but does not own) a separate heritage streetcar line, the Willamette Shore Trolley. The group was founded in 1957, and is named in honor of the Oregon Electric Railway, a former interurban electric rail line in the Willamette Valley…
Car 513 passing the new Sellwood Bridge in 2018
A narrow gauge locomotive in Lake Oswego, c. 1900
Blackpool car 48, a British double-decker tram built in 1928, operated on the line in 1987 and again from 1995–2003.
The southern portal of the quarter-mile-long Elk Rock Tunnel in 2014