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===Issaquah Valley Trolley=== {{Main|Issaquah Valley Trolley}} [[File:Issaquah Valley Trolley car 519 crossing Front St in 2014.jpg|thumb|Issaquah Valley Trolley car crossing Front Street. Operation ceased in fall 2020.]] The [[Issaquah Valley Trolley]] was a [[heritage trolley]] service operated by the Issaquah Historical Society on a section of the city's remaining railroad tracks from the [[Issaquah station|Issaquah Depot]] to Gilman Village. A pilot was organized from 2001 to 2002 with cars borrowed from [[Yakima Electric Railway Museum|Yakima Valley Trolleys]] and followed by the Issaquah Historical Society's acquisition of their own three cars in 2010.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gracey |first=Celeste |date=October 26, 2010 |title=Trolley in downtown Issaquah on track to open next summer |url=https://www.issaquahreporter.com/news/trolley-in-downtown-issaquah-on-track-to-open-next-summer/ |work=Issaquah Reporter |access-date=May 25, 2024}}</ref><ref name="supporters prepare">{{cite news|last=Kagarise|first=Warren|title=Trolley returns, and supporters prepare for rides to start in October|newspaper=[[Issaquah Press]]|date=August 28, 2012|url=http://www.issaquahpress.com/2012/08/28/trolley-returns-and-supporters-prepare-for-rides-to-start-in-october/|access-date=January 28, 2013|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819012315/http://www.issaquahpress.com/2012/08/28/trolley-returns-and-supporters-prepare-for-rides-to-start-in-october/|archive-date=August 19, 2013}}</ref> Regular public rides started in October 2012<ref name="starts service">{{cite news|author=<!--Not stated-->|title=All aboard, Issaquah, as downtown trolley starts service|newspaper=[[Issaquah Press]]|date=October 16, 2012|url=http://www.issaquahpress.com/2012/10/16/downtown-trolley-starts-service/|access-date=January 28, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819012250/http://www.issaquahpress.com/2012/10/16/downtown-trolley-starts-service/|archive-date=August 19, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> and operated seasonally on weekends until November 2020, when it was discontinued permanently because of increased costs and insufficient funding.<ref name="TAUT-2017Apr">{{cite magazine |last=Russell |first=Mike |title=Classic Trams: Washington's Two of a Kind, Part 1 |magazine=[[Tramways & Urban Transit]] |publisher=[[Light Rail Transit Association|LRTA Publishing]] |date=April 2017 |location=UK |pages=156β157 |issn=1460-8324}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Issaquah Valley Trolley To Cease Operations |url=https://issaquahhistory.org/issaquah-valley-trolley-2020-update/ |publisher=Issaquah History Museums |access-date=March 2, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206064151/https://issaquahhistory.org/issaquah-valley-trolley-2020-update/ |archive-date=December 6, 2021 |date=November 3, 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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