Fantastic little photo essay on the Spokane & Inland Empire (electric interurban) Railroad in 'The Oregonian', October 27, 1907. If you look closely, you can see that the 'Inland Empire System' logo on the map echoes the track layout at the railroad's Spokane terminal. Neat!

And a bit of future-proofing while I'm here: Oklahoma City now lines up vertically with Newton so that the future Heartland Flyer extension can just slot right in.

An interesting approach! And here's what the Borealis looks like on my Amtrak-as-Subway-Diagram... yep, that's 16 [sixteen!] routes into/out of Chicago now!

And a bit of future-proofing while I'm here: Oklahoma City now lines up vertically with Newton so that the future Heartland Flyer extension can just slot right in.

An interesting approach! And here's what the Borealis looks like on my Amtrak-as-Subway-Diagram... yep, that's 16 [sixteen!] routes into/out of Chicago now!

The potholes have gotten so deep at Washington and Illinois you can now see both tracks for the old E Washington Streetcar line!

It's Amtrak's birthday, so here's my map of what national passenger rail service looked like back in May, 1971: transitmap.net/amtrak-may-197…

I know TriMet is proud of their 'Better Red' program, but showing the old loop and new inbound overpass at Gateway on the map just seems overly-fussy. 'Gateway North' should just be part of Gateway TC on the map with signs directing riders to/from the platform in real life.

It's Amtrak's birthday, so here's my map of what national passenger rail service looked like back in May, 1971: transitmap.net/amtrak-may-197…

A new route to add to my Amtrak map – yay!

I know TriMet is proud of their 'Better Red' program, but showing the old loop and new inbound overpass at Gateway on the map just seems overly-fussy. 'Gateway North' should just be part of Gateway TC on the map with signs directing riders to/from the platform in real life.

#OnThisDay in 1910, interurban rail service began between Everett and Seattle. historylink.org/File/5341

The diagram in the booklet shows the proposed extensions north of the river through the City to Beckton and Thamesmead - plans radically changed over the next decade. #Underground Mark Ovenden Transit Maps

Reading the National Register of Historic Places application for the Sellwood Carmen's Clubhouse and I like this statement:
'The optimistic days of the interurbans began to wane after 1912. No single factor was responsible for the decline of this service.'
Simple and concise.

Ray Delahanty | CityNerd polythene sam Montavilla provides my fave Portland streetcar fact: the full name of the tract – Mount Tabor Villa – wouldn’t fit on the headboard of the cars, so they contracted it to “Moun-Ta-Villa”, then “Montavilla”. The abbreviated name caught on, and is what we use to this day.

North American railroad tickets, c1960

You can buy prints of this one (and tons of other great stuff) on his site. Check it out if you aren’t familiar!

transitmap.net/project-street…

Hey! You should all check out this Ray Delahanty | CityNerd video where he uses my map of Portland's streetcars in 1915 to take you on a virtual tour of the 'streetcar neighborhoods' that are such an amazing part of the fabric of this city. Well worth a watch!

youtube.com/watch?v=W6uy6S…

Huge thanks to Transit Maps for use of this modern recreation of the 1915 electric railway map for Portland, OR in today’s video. He does such amazing stuff!

Me: 'I'd like to copy and paste from this pdf please'

Adobe Acrobat: 'no worries, I took the liberty of stacking each word on top of each other in a vertical column, adding mysterious symbols, and removing every instance of the letter 't''