Portland Traction Co streetcar system map, 1943 fanart and booming as immigrants flooded

and booming as immigrants flooded the shores of the New World looking to start a better life

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

The line went out of business during the Great Depression

Portland Traction Co streetcar system map, 1943 fanart and booming as immigrants floodedWorld 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