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Trolley Trails Through The West Volume 4 WA OR
Trolley Trails Through The West Volume 4 By Robert Wilson
Soft Cover - stapled
Tacoma, Spokane, Bellingham,Miscellaneous Washington and Oregon Communities
27 pages
Copyright 1978
Contents
A juice fan at Tacoma
Island Empire Juice Lines
Here and there in the evergreen and beaver states
Near the southern tip of Puget sound, "The City of destiny" spreads across a generous area of once-wooded hills, where many a pine and fir still stands in the dooryards of those who call Tacoma home. Forest ferns cover the ground where lawns or flower Duds have not yet encroached. In outlying sections, chipmunks still scurry across the curbless, gravelled streets, and the chance visitor would scarcely dream that he is only a matter of minutes away from the brick buildings and busy streets of a city of over 100,000 population.
From many of the hills within the corporate limits, the great snowcapped Mount Rainier may be seen, poking its head above the lazy fog, when not obscured by gentle but persistent rain that Tacomans regard as part of their daily lives.
Here is a city beautiful -- fine homes, delightful parka, such lakes as usually are found only hidden remotely in the mountains, an aquarium that is the envy of any a larger city, forests and streams at its very gates, yet a city now almost devoid of interest to the electric railway fan.
The electrified mainline operations of the Milwaukee Road were the last reminder to Tacoma residents that electric traction is not, indeed, extinct. Now even that is gone.
Workmen have obliterated, by repavement projects, practically the last traces of what was once one of the finest and most interesting street railway systems of the West: Tacoma Railway & Power Co., though it was just one unit in the scheme of electric railways once centering here.
A map made in 1901 and now in possession of Mr. C. W. Yingling of Rochester, N. Y., reveals the T.R.& P. well developed even in those days. The South Tacoma and Manito routes, as well as the long run to Point Defiance, appear on that map as "motor lines", contrasted with the "electric lines" designation of most other routes. Certain minor rearrangements of trackage took place subsequently, and additional lines were constructed to South K Street and McKinley Heights. However, the 1901 picture was essentially the same as that of the early 19300s, barring, of course, the earlier electrification of the "motor lines."
But by 1937, agitation was afoot, as in so many cities, for "trackless transit". In vain the company pleaded to retain tracks on the principal lines. Though its officers wisely pointed out that development of the P.C.C. car tended to make imperative the use of such equipment in truly modern cities, the authorities insisted on complete and prompt abandonment, removal of rails, and repavement of the streets. At first it was thought the cable line would be allowed to remain; then it was decided this too must go. Indeed, when old No. 87 made its farewell trip around the loop at midnight of April 8th, 1938, the cable route became one of the first in Tacoma to succumb to bus substitution.
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