Streetcars were both early and late arrivals in North Portland. The first electric streetcars in the state of Oregon began rolling across the original Steel Bridge into the city of Albina in November 1889. Within a few months, these pioneering trolleys were connecting with a steam railway then under construction to the town of St. Johns. Yet, travel on this longest of lines remained in two parts until the entire St. Johns Line was electrified in 1903...