More than 100 years after it was built to power Portland-area interurbans, this electrical substation continues to work.

The 1905-vintage facility is lettered for the Oregon Water Power and Railway Co., one of the early interurban operations in Portland and a predecessor of Portland General Electric.

It is located in Portland's Sellwood neighborhood at the site of old Golf Junction, where the interurban lines to Gresham and Oregon City split.

Passenger service ran past here until January 1958, when the last service on the lines was discontinued.

The tracks running past the building remain in regular service for the East Portland Traction division of Oregon Pacific RR.

Photographed by Thomas McCann, August 14, 2009.
Added to the photo archive by Thomas McCann, August 20, 2009.

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