Portland Traction Co streetcar system map, 1943 fanart electrified six-car monorail

electrified six-car monorail

The line went out of business during the Great Depression

even without direct access to San Francisco

Houston was one of the first major cities in America to close its streetcar network and replace it with buses

designed by an engineer named Alan Voorhees for the Metropolitan Transit Commission

Portland Traction Co streetcar system map, 1943 fanart electrified six-car monorailWorld War II era Portland was a hive of scum and villainy. The population had gone up by thirty percent, as workers from all over the country came to build merchant vessels in the great Kaiser Shipyards. The civil authorities had been stretched to their limits. Housing was scarce, brothels and gambling dens flourished, and sexually transmitted diseases were so rampant that the military nearly banned servicemen from the city. Mass transit ridership