The Oregon Electric Railway Museum is the largest streetcar/trolley museum in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It is owned and operated by the Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society and is located in Brooks, Oregon, on the grounds of Powerland Heritage Park (formerly known as Antique Powerland).The original museum opened in Glenwood, about 40 miles west of Portland, in 1959, with the first operation of streetcars taking place in 1963 and regular operation in 1966. It was named Trolley Park or, more commonly, the Trolley Park, but its formal name in later years was the same as that of the present museum. The Glenwood museum was built on the site of a former steam logging railroad, and OERHS re-equipped the former sawmill building of the Consolidated Timber Company as a four-track carbarn. The museum property occupied about 26acre, and trolley cars were able to operate on a 1.7mi line.Operation at the Glenwood site ended in autumn 1995.The current museum opened in Brooks in 1996. The museum consists of about one mile of mainline track with overhead wire. There is a four-track carbarn to store the international collection of streetcars.The collection includes: Two Portland 1904 Brill streetcars (nicknamed Council Crest type), Nos. 503 and 506 Portland 1932 Brill "Master Unit", No. 813 Portland-built interurban, No. 1067 Blackpool, England, double-decker tram, No. 48, built in 1928. Acquired by OERHS in 1964. Sydney, Australia, open-sided "Breezer" streetcar, No. 1187, built in 1912 Porto, Portugal single-truck streetcar, No. 210 Los Angeles Railway car No. 1318 Two San Francisco PCC streetcars, Nos. 1118 and 1159 San Francisco Boeing LRV, No. 1213 Hong Kong double-decker tram, No. 12 Portland snow sweeper, No. 1455 Oregon Electric Railway locomotive 21, a electric "steeple cab" locomotive built in 1912; acquired in 2017 Three other electric steeple-cab locomotives, from Montana Three types of trolley buses: a Twin Coach and a Pullman-Standard from Seattle and a CCF-Brill from VancouverNine ex-Brussels, Belgium, cars all moved to the museum from storage in Port Mellon, British Columbia in 2015, all but one of which are single-truck cars:Six work cars that are former passenger cars (Nos. 19, 25, 26, 31, 34 and 1247) built in the mid-1930s and converted for work service in the 1970sOne passenger car (No. 1048) that was built in 1937 (as #1608). Retired in 1975, it was sold in 1984 to the Grand Cypress Resort, a then-new 930acre resort near Orlando, Florida, where a streetcar line opened in 1985 to carry guests around the vast property. The 3.5mi streetcar line closed in the mid-1990s, and two of its cars were eventually moved to B.C. after being acquired by the owner of the other ex-Brussels streetcars now at OERM.One passenger trailer (No. 2190), built in 1931 and which otherwise has a history similar to that of No. 1048, having been used for service on the Grand Cypress Resort line in Florida, until that line's closure in the 1990sBrussels car 7020, a 1952 PCC streetcar built by La Brugeoise and retired from service in the 2000s
"The Oregon Electric Railway Museum is owned and operated by the Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society OERHS. The Museum is run by volunteers of the Society. In the museum's collection, there are a variety of trolleys and traction equipment from around the world. Including streetcars/trams from Portland, Sydney Australia, and the crowd favorite, the Double-Decker from Blackpool England. We also have more streetcars from San Francisco, Brussels, Hong Kong, Portugal, and more...Come ride our trolley history with us!"
