The Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society (OERHS) operates a railroad museum and a heritage railroad for electric streetcar and railway enthusiasts.
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The group was founded in 1957, and is named in honor of the Oregon Electric Railway, a former interurban electric rail line in the Willamette Valley. OERHS operated a streetcar museum known as Trolley Park in Glenwood, Washington County, Oregon from 1966[1] to 1995. The Trolley Park museum was formally named the Oregon Electric Railway Museum, and it retained the latter name when it moved in 1996 from Glenwood to Brooks, Oregon.
The OERHS currently operates the Willamette Shore Trolley between Portland and Lake Oswego, as well as the Oregon Electric Railway Museum in Brooks. The museum is on the grounds of Antique Powerland, located just west of Interstate-5.
Two former-Portland "Council Crest" Brill streetcars are the jewels of the OERHS collection. Other vintage streetcars at the museum include an open-sided car from Sydney, Australia, double-deckers from Blackpool, England, and Hong Kong, and two 1940s PCC streetcars from San Francisco.
Although mostly concerned with preserving streetcars and electric railway equipment, the OERHS has also collected a modern Boeing-Vertol Light-Rail Vehicle (LRV) from San Francisco Muni, and has acquired three vintage trolley buses. With the exception of a former-Portland Brill "Master Unit" being used on the Willamette Shore Trolley, the entire collection is based in Brooks.