The Portland Railway, Light and Power Company (PRL&P) was a railway company and electric power utility in Portland , Oregon , United States, from 1906 until 1924.
6-653: A series of mergers of various transportation companies in 1905–1906 culminating in the merger of the Portland Street Railway Company ; Oregon Water, Power and Railway Company; and the Portland General Electric Company on June 28, 1906, established the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company (PRL&P). Nearly 200 miles of track and 375 urban and interurban streetcars were thereupon consolidated under
12-529: A descendant of PRL&P. The company's interurban lines used standard-gauge track, with the exception of the line to Vancouver, Washington , while most of its urban (or "city") lines were narrow-gauge, specifically 3 ft 6 in (1067 mm) gauge . A few lines in the southeast part of the city were standard-gauge, converted from narrow gauge in December 1908 for efficiency, so that they could operate out of PRL&P's Sellwood carbarn , which
18-490: A single company. Upon its formation, PRL&P became the only company to operate streetcars within Portland city limits; it also continued to sell electric power. The name, Portland General Electric (PGE), remained in use as a division of PRL&P and, after subsequent reorganizations in 1930 and 1940 eventually PGE became once again fully independent as a power utility company, making PGE in some ways both an ancestor and
24-838: The West Ankeny Carbarns was listed in 1978, and the Sellwood Division Carbarn Office and Clubhouse was listed in 2002. The company's 1911 hydroelectric facility in Estacada, Oregon , the River Mill Hydroelectric Project , is also listed on the NRHP. Portland Street Railway Company Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
30-655: The city council complained about the power rates charged to the city. PRL&P's president, Franklin Griffith , was part of the corruption and graft surrounding Mayor George Luis Baker ; Griffith and others paid off Baker's mortgage. PRL&P was reorganized as the Portland Electric Power Company (PEPCO) on April 26, 1924. Two former PRL&P streetcar buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Bay E of
36-556: Was closer to the area those lines served but was only equipped for standard-gauge operation. By 1910, PRL&P was a $ 15 million holding company , having received 43 franchises from the city of Portland, mostly in the form of land grants . It was a monopoly, and "liable to anti-trust action under the Sherman Act ." The company only installed safety devices (such as pedestrian bumpers) on its streetcars after "extreme public pressure." While PRL&P installed many public streetlights,
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