On 27/03/2017 8:33 PM,prescottt@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> I've never seen a tramline so well integrated into the landscape (grassed track) that it's almost impossible to spot from the air on Google maps! If you go into streetview you start to see it, just. It looks like an interesting line that I would like to ride one day. The loop and wye are still there. I hope the diesel isn't too fumey.

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Not at all fumey - and barely audible.
It's well worth the visit.

The wye has been altered.

It originally was on the cliff side of the water tower.
See my pic from 13 years ago at: http://tdu.to/a34847/PortlandCableSet_5March2004.jpg

This pic shows the first grip car and the other trailer (No95). The first grip is a little too tall - probably due to scale errors in translating the drawings.

The cliff has had major slips, so the wye is now on the road side of the tower.

The attached pic shows a car set arriving at the North Portland terminus this week.
http://tdu.to/Portland-cable-tram.jpg

The track visible in the foreground is part of the wye.

Mal Rowe - impressed by the effort of this town