Puget Sound Electric Railway
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found: To Tacoma by trolley, c1995:t.p. (Puget Sound Electric Railway) p. 11 (began service 09-25-1902 as the Seattle-Tacoma Interurban Railway) p. 19 (11-23-1902 the Seattle-Tacoma Interurban became the Puget Sound Electric Railway (PSE) and headquarters moved from Kent to Tacoma)
found: NUCMC data from Washington State Historical Society for Seattle Tacoma Railway Company records, 1899-1903(The Seattle-Tacoma Railway Company was succeeded by the Seattle-Tacoma Interurban Railway Company. On 25 September 1902, the Seattle-Tacoma Interurban Railway inaugurated electric rail service between Seattle (from a Pioneer Square terminal at Yesler Way and Occidental Street) and downtown Tacoma, with a branch line to Renton. Wooden cars manufactured by the Brill Co. departed approximately once every hour with the typical run taking 100 minutes. One-way fare costs 60 cents and a round trip one dollar. Later named the Puget Sound Electric Railway, the line was part of a system that also owned the Tacoma City Railway. The line ran on tracks along city streets in Seattle and Tacoma receiving its power from overhead wires, but most of the line ran on private, fenced right of way with an electrified third rail providing power. The carbarns and base of operations were in Kent. In 1919, the line carried three million passengers, but competition from automobiles speeding over paved roads pushed the interurban to bankruptcy in 1927. The lines were abandoned in 1928 with the opening of Highway 99.)
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1998-04-29: new
2020-07-10: revised
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