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The first was the Tacoma Puyallup Railway incorporated by a man named Randolph Foster Radebaugh.

R. F.

Radebaugh came to Tacoma from San Francisco in 1880 and was one of Tacoma ’ s best promoters from the very start.

He was the father of the Daily Ledger, Tacoma ’ s first daily newspaper.

In 1889 Randolph put together the street car line, named the Tacoma and Fern Hill Railway for the area it served.

Later within the same year, that line was extended into Midland and on towards Puyallup.

The name was changed to Tacoma Puyallup Railway.

If you lived in Tacoma or on the hill, the line was generally referred to as the Puyallup Hill Line.

If you lived in Puyallup it was affectionately called the Grapevine Line.

Later, Puyallup was served by another railway called the Short Line.

So then, the old line became the Old Grapevine Line.