A photo of the electrification of the Southern Pacific R.R. right of way near Lake Oswego, OR. ca. 1920. The Red Electric cars ran in 2 directions at a junction ahead to the west. The two 13,200 volt power lines, using M-2340 multipart insulators started at a substation about 3 miles back and are on the sides of the right of way corresponding to their destination. The line to the left went S.W. to McMinnville and Corvallis and the power line terminated in a substation at Dundee, OR. The line to the right went N.W. to Beaverton, Hillsboro and McMinnville. That power line terminated in a substation near Forest Grove, OR. and is the line you see in the previous photo of the 'wire catchers'. A very well built, efficient electrical system that was completely torn down by 1931. The tracks remain today in freight service and I have found broken pieces now and then of the multiparts along the rail line.