Seattle's Yesler Street cable car line was the first in the Pacific Northwest and only the seventh in the world. It carried passengers and freight along the 2.25 mile track between the downtown area and Leschi Park in sixteen minutes. The Yesler Street line opened in September 1888 and ran until August 1940. By that time, there were over 100,000 automobiles in Seattle, and few people rode the cable cars.

This August 1940 photo shows the Yesler Street cable car on the last day of its run. The large building in the background is the Frye Hotel. The Queen Anne and Phinney cable car lines closed soon afterwards. Electric and gasoline-powered buses that needed no tracks replaced Seattle's old streetcar and cable car lines.

Notes: Original title: Yesler cable car, last day to run.
SHS category: Transportation - Trolley