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162: 146: 250: 154: 38: 197:(PGE), remained in use as a division of PRL&P and, after subsequent reorganizations in 1930 and 1940 eventually PGE became once again fully independent as a power utility company, making PGE in some ways both an ancestor and a descendant of PRL&P. 235:." The company only installed safety devices (such as pedestrian bumpers) on its streetcars after "extreme public pressure." While PRL&P installed many public streetlights, the city council complained about the power rates charged to the city. 870: 273: 254: 217: 961: 921: 966: 640: 419: 239: 971: 257:
of PRL&P has survived and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The large carbarn it once served was demolished in the 2000s.
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on June 28, 1906, established the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company (PRL&P). Nearly 200 miles of track and 375 urban and
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An ex-PRL&P streetcar that has been preserved is Portland "Council Crest" car 503, which was built in 1904 (as No. 203) for the
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streetcars were thereupon consolidated under a single company. Upon its formation, PRL&P became the only company to operate
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A series of mergers of various transportation companies in 1905–1906 culminating in the merger of the
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Murder & scandal in prohibition Portland : sex, vice & misdeeds in Mayor Baker's reign
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from narrow gauge in December 1908 for efficiency, so that they could operate out of PRL&P's
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PRL&P was reorganized as the Portland Electric Power Company (PEPCO) on April 26, 1924.
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Map Showing Lines of the Portland Railway Light and Power Company Portland Oregon June 1912
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within Portland city limits; it also continued to sell electric power. The name,
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The Shaping of a City: Business and Politics in Portland, Oregon 1885 to 1915
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Mills, Randall V. (March 1943). "Early Electric Interurbans in Oregon".
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was listed in 2002. The company's 1911 hydroelectric facility in
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and passed to PRL&P with a 1906 merger. It is shown at the
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Two former PRL&P streetcar buildings are listed on the
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Defunct transport and utility company of Portland, Oregon
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Index

Portland Traction Company

Public
Public utility
Portland
Oregon
Electric power
Portland
Oregon



Portland Street Railway Company
Oregon Electric Railway Museum
Portland Street Railway Company
Portland General Electric Company
interurban
streetcars
Portland General Electric
standard-gauge
Vancouver, Washington
3 ft 6 in (1067 mm) gauge
converted
Sellwood carbarn
holding company
land grants
Sherman Act
Franklin Griffith
George Luis Baker

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