History
P&W’s freight line between Beaverton and Wilsonville was originally built by The Oregon Electric Railway (OE) Company. OE provided interurban passenger and freight service on electric rail lines linking Portland, Salem, and Eugene. By 1914, 26 trains using this line were entering and departing Portland every day. After the rise of the automobile, ridership diminished, and OE stopped offering passenger service in 1933. Passenger rail returned to Washington County in 1998 when the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet), which operates mass transportation systems in the region, began using an abandoned Burlington Northern railroad right-of-way between downtown Hillsboro and Beaverton for the light rail line known as Westside MAX. The right-of-way between the two towns was originally part of Oregon Electric's former Forest Grove line; portions of the line had carried BN freight trains as recently as 1994, before TriMet acquired it.
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