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'''Cable Car Canyon''' is a local name for a draw in [[Goose Hollow]] where an elaborate wooden 1000-foot trestle was built in 1890, at a ''21 percent grade'', simply to get people up the hill.  (It was meant to sell real estate.)  

It wasn't a good idea.  One of the cable cars got loose two days after it opened.  The whole thing was scrapped for firewood in 1905.  Among the few remnants are a short street segment called Cable Avenue, and an 11-foot iron wheel dug up in 1994.

== External links ==

* [http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/03/a_streetcar_trestle_was_once_p.html Oregon Live page on the cable car]

[[Category:Transportation]]
[[Category:Goose Hollow neighborhood]]
[[Category:History]]