The Southern Pacific Red Electric Lines, also known simply as the Red Electric, was a network of interurban passenger train services operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad in the Willamette Valley
A Red Electric train at Southern Pacific Depot in Beaverton
Former Hillsboro depot that still includes sign indicating distance to Corvallis at end of the line
Southern Pacific Railroad's logo
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
Southern Pacific Red Electric Lines
…Oswego), most of the track of the Red Electric's "East Side" line remained in use by SP freight trains until 1983, and since 1987 has been used by the Willamette Shore Trolley heritage streetcar service. SP sold that approximately 7-mile (11 km) section of rail line in 1988 to a consortium of local governments who wanted to…
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