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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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