The Seattle Municipal Street Railway was a city-owned streetcar network that served the city of Seattle, Washington and its suburban neighborhoods from...
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photographs: Leschi ferry landing, 1914, from the Seattle Municipal Archives Seattle Municipal Street Railway cable car in Leschi Park, 1938, article at the...
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Waterfront Streetcar (redirect from Seattle Waterfront Streetcar)
29, 1982, the first streetcars to run in Seattle since the closure of the Seattle Municipal Street Railway on April 13, 1941. It initially terminated...
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and Bayless, G.A., Ferryboats – A Legend on Puget Sound, Bayless Books, Seattle, WA 1983 ISBN 0-914515-00-4 Town of Steilacoom official website (accessed...
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King County Metro official site Flickr: The Seattle Streetcar Pool Guide to the Seattle Municipal Street Railway Photograph Collection: 1913-1940 Special...
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Link light rail (redirect from Seattle Light Rail)
suburbs. Some of these systems were consolidated into the Seattle Municipal Street Railway, a city-owned network established in 1918, while others remained...
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to the city government and formally incorporated into the Seattle Municipal Street Railway in May 1914, becoming Route 4 of Division C. The damaged section...
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corner of what is now NE 42nd Street. The street cars eventually came to be operated by the Seattle Municipal Street Railway, which ceased operations in...
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the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway. Today three miles (5 km) of this line, running along Salmon Bay from N.W. 40th Street to the BNSF Railway mainline...
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Queen Anne Counterbalance (category History of Seattle)
was operated by the city as the Seattle Municipal Street Railway. On March 5, 1937, the Seattle Municipal Street Railway held a race between the Counterbalance...
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Books, Seattle, WA 1983 ISBN 0-914515-00-4 Newell, Gordon R. ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, Superior Publishing, Seattle WA 1966...
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The San Francisco Municipal Railway (/ˈmjuːni/ MEW-nee; SF Muni or Muni), is the primary public transit system within San Francisco, California. It operates...
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Hoovervilles in Seattle — Document List Archived 2007-08-10 at archive.today, Digital Document Library, Seattle Municipal Archives (Seattle City Clerk's...
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automobile began the dismantling of rail in Seattle. Tacoma–Seattle railway service ended in 1929 and the Everett–Seattle service came to an end in 1939, replaced...
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Electric Company Seattle Municipal Railway Seattle and Rainier Beach Railway Seattle and Renton Railway Seattle, Renton and Southern Railway South Bend Electric...
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number of passenger commuters. The Seattle Municipal Street Railway had a 231-mile (372 km) streetcar and cable railway system by 1935, while private companies...
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and Lake Washington, and between NE 95th and 98th streets to the Seattle city limits at NE 145th Street. Lake City encompasses much of the Thornton Creek...
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North America (covers countries other than U.S. and Canada) List of street railways in Canada List of town tramway systems in the United States Middleton...
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Seattle Municipal Light and Power Plant, also known as Cedar Falls Historic District, is a public hydroelectric plant near North Bend, Washington operated...
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The Seattle metropolitan area is an urban conglomeration in the U.S. state of Washington that comprises Seattle, its surrounding satellites and suburbs...
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District) and another steamer crossed Green Lake. The first street railway, Seattle Street Railway, came in 1884, with horse-drawn cars plying 3.5 miles (5...
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through Downtown Seattle. It runs west under Pine Street from 9th Avenue to 3rd Avenue, and south under 3rd Avenue to South Jackson Street. 1 Line trains...
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Downtown Seattle and Belltown, ending at the Broad Street site of the Olympic Sculpture Park. The Central Waterfront was once the hub of Seattle's maritime...
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South Lake Union Streetcar (redirect from Terry Avenue & Thomas Street station)
Downtown Seattle to the Fremont Bridge and was privately operated until being acquired by the city during the formation of the Seattle Municipal Street Railway...
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Metropolitan Street Railway's Broadway Line Metropolitan Street Railway's Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line Metropolitan Street Railway's Broadway and...
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The Ave (redirect from University Way (Seattle))
the new name of the street: "University Way." The street once carried streetcars operated by the Seattle Municipal Street Railway that ceased in 1941...
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first municipally owned dock. Even The Seattle Times, normally opposed to municipal ownership, began to advocate for similar measures in Seattle. On March...
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July 14, 1873, the Northern Pacific Railway announced that they had chosen the then-village of Tacoma over Seattle as the Western terminus of their transcontinental...
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Streetcars in North America (redirect from Street railways in North America)
A few recent cases feature mixed-traffic street-running operation like a streetcar. Portland, Oregon, Seattle, and Salt Lake City have built both modern...
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the old Northern Pacific Railway line, originally of Judge Burke and Daniel Gilman's Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway (c. 1886). The low-lying...
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