13 results for: Puget Sound Electric Railway
Ephemera
Trolley Trips in City and Suburbs on the Car Lines of the Seattle Electric Company, circa 1910
In 1898, the Seattle Electric Company was granted a contract to consolidate the city's 22 separate streetcar lines and private street railways. The SEC was an arm of the national Stone & Webster utility cartel, which also controlled the city's electrical grid and operated the Puget Sound Electric Railway (PSE), an interurban line linking Tacoma, Seattle, and Everett. By 1941,…
ID Number:Lib1992.35.1
Date:Circa 1910
Photograph
Seattle-Tacoma interurban trolley near Kent, Washington, circa 1909
Interurban trolley service between Seattle and Tacoma began in 1902. The high-speed Puget Sound Electric Railroad won passengers and freight away from the slower Puget Sound steamers. Regular trolley service on the line also speeded the development of the area between Seattle and Tacoma. Service ended in 1928, a victim of the more-popular automobile.This photo shows car 500 and two…
ID Number:SHS720
Date:Circa 1909
Photograph
Madison Street Cable Railway at 3rd Avenue, Seattle, 1907
The Madison Street Cable Railway provided public transportation along one of Seattle's busiest thoroughfares from 1890 to 1940. Built to connect downtown Seattle with Lake Washington, Madison Street was Seattle's steepest cable line, terminating downtown at a turntable on West Street (now Western Avenue), near the present-day ferry terminal on Puget Sound. In this image a Madison Street Cable Railway…
ID Number:SHS915
Date:1907