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Seattle Municipal Street Railway

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starting from September 23, 1884. Osgood went on to convert the horsecars to electric traction as the Seattle Electric Railway and Power Company, beginning with a test on March 30, 1889 and followed by regular service the next day. By 1891, Seattle had 78 mi (126 km) of street railway
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began assembling a transit system by consolidating several smaller streetcar lines, including the Seattle Electric Railway. By 1900, Stone & Webster had amalgamated 22 lines and gained a 40-year operating franchise under a new power and transport utility named the
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of Seattle Electric's cars were idle because they could not pay operators enough. In September 1918, PSTP&L agreed to sell its lines to the city, and several months of increasingly acrimonious negotiations followed.
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Formerly Seattle Street Railway Company; consolidated with the West Street and Lake Union Railway as the Seattle Electric Railway in 1889. Reorganized as Consolidated Street Railway in April 1891.
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Originally named the Lake Washington Cable Railway. Started from Yesler & Fruit at Pioneer Place, ran east via Yesler to power house at Lake Washington; one turntable at each end.
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streetcar system, and in 1912 it combined all of its transit and utility holdings in the area under a new company, the Puget Sound Traction, Power and Light Company (PSTP&L).
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Map of the Puget Sound Traction, Power & Light Company's Seattle division in 1914, five years before taken over by the Seattle Municipal Street Railway
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Holmgren, Don F. (Spring 2007). "The California Street Cable R.R. Co. and the John Hammond Car Co.'s Connection to the Emerald City - Seattle".
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On March 31, 1919, the city of Seattle purchased the entire Seattle division of PSTP&L's street railways but the price of the acquisition,
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Initially drew power from Consolidated until powerhouse was completed in Jan 1891. Ran along West Street, then northeast to Ballard.
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The City of Seattle entered into direct competition with Seattle Electric by furnishing electricity in 1905 after completing the
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Italics denote lines or services which are planned, under construction, defunct, or otherwise not operating at the present time.
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In 1973, Seattle Transit was absorbed by the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle (which later was replaced by
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The first streetcars in Seattle were operated by Frank Osgood as the Seattle Street Railway, which ran
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Included three-block counterbalance operation, using a loaded narrow-gauge car running underground.
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Roadwork in 1934 exposed the tracks and center slot atop the second tunnel of the Counterbalance
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and its suburban neighborhoods from 1919 to 1941. It was a successor to the horse-drawn
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Seattle Street Railway's first streetcar at Occidental Avenue and Yesler Way with Mayor
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Routes : An Interpretive History of Public Transportation in Metropolitan Seattle
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Better Than Promised: An informal history of the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle
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Test cars operated in 1890 to hold the franchise; planned conversion to electric.
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Feeder to Consolidated. Built and operated by Woodland Park owner Guy C. Phinney.
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Feeder to Consolidated. Ran east from Lake Union to Brooklyn suburb.
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tracks, of which 70 mi (110 km) had been built since 1889.
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After selling its streetcar lines, PSTP&L eventually became
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Feeder to Consolidated. Ran north from Fremont to Green Lake.
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Ran north from Pioneer Square along Front and Second.
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established in 1884, and immediate successor to the
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Historic transit system in Seattle, Washington, U.S.
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Index


John Leary
Seattle
Washington
Horse-drawn
Cable car
Electric streetcar
Lines
Track length (total)
streetcar
Seattle
Washington



Queen Anne Counterbalance
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Stone & Webster
cable car
Madison Street

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