Before Klamath Falls had paved streets, the city offered a railway franchise to the first of two companies to lay the track for a horse-drawn trolley along Main Street. The Klamath Land and Transportation Company won the contract, using secondhand rail from an abandoned logging railroad.Passenger service began on July 4, 1907, with souvenir tickets priced at $1.50. The tracks soon reached a northern terminus near the Upper Klamath Lake docks.By 1911, frequent derailments caused [...]
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