Portland light rail system map, 1923 united railroads and all of it was

and all of it was run by an evil monopoly known as the Detroit United Railway

under pressure from federal antitrust enforcers

This is part of my freeway series

the freeway map I drew is deliberately the opposite: it's clean

The average person was working 60 hours a week for miserable wages

Portland light rail system map, 1923 united railroads and all of it wasModern Portland and the Willamette Valley have a large, successful light rail system built in the late 20th century. But it was even bigger in the 1920s, when it was owned by five competing railway operators. (The system went all the way to Corvallis and Eugene, 100 miles away.) This was only feasible before modern roads. As buses, paved roads and cars got better, there was simply less need to have a 100 mile long interurban rail system. The system