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Local Trolleys May Become National Historic Landmark Yakima Valley Trolley s should become a National Historic Landmark. That from Ken Johnsen, President of Yakima Valley Trolleys. Johnsen is asking for a letter of endorsement from the Yakima City Council for an application to the National Park Service on behalf of the City of Yakima s trolley railroad, the Yakima Valley Transportation Company so it can be named as an historic landmark. The Yakima Valley Trolley railroad is the last historically intact early 20th Century electric interurban railroad in existence. The railroad is already on the National Register of Historic Places. Johnson, the President of Yakima Valley Trolleys says there are no other electric interurban railroads left in America that still use all their original infrastructure and streetcars and locomotives.  In a letter to the council Johnsen writes

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