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Mr. Hipkins and His Maintenance Car

‘Pa Hip’ was the key man on the streetcar line. This is the shop-built locomotive used as a repair car for maintenance work on the...

Street Car #21

There is some question as to the correct number of the streetcar shown in this photo from the archives of our Rainier Valley Historical...

Streetcar Mystery

Historical Photo Leaves All To Imagination. What were those well-dressed folks doing on that day so long ago? As we enter the new...

The Genesee Dinky

What put the car in the ditch? This photo depicts the Genesee Streetcar on a day when it was not going anywhere, at least not for a...

Streetcar Wreck at Willow Street

The date was April 30, 1910 when a runaway coal car hit streetcar #102 on the "Seattle, Renton & Southern Ry." streetcar line. Two...

Car #20 at Rainier Beach Station

In this early Rainier Valley photo, taken about 1905, car number 20 of the "Seattle & Renton RY" pauses at Rainier Beach Station which...

Memories of a Rainier Valley Street Car Operator

Charlie Fletcher was the last surviving motorman from the Rainier Valley Street car line. Before he passed away in October of 1994 at the...

Car #20 in Columbia City

The date is 1902. Car #20 of the Seattle, Renton & Southern RY., traveling southbound, has just crested the hill between Genesee and...

Rainier Valley's First Street Cars

The upper, 1891 photo was taken in Columbia City, the year the first lots were sold there and a year after the streetcar line was put in....

History of Streetcar Line

Rainier Valley has seen a lot of traffic revision these last few weeks. We have many new traffic circles, sidewalks and curbs, thanks to...