http://www.issaquahpress.com/2010/03/09 ... e-trolley/
Work on the long-planned effort to bring trolley service to downtown Issaquah will relaunch by late spring, after a yearslong hiatus.

City planners last week announced a proposal to rehabilitate a little more than a half-mile of unused railroad track from the historic Issaquah Train Depot to Northwest Gilman Boulevard. The city administers federal grant dollars awarded to the Issaquah Valley Trolley Project, the group behind the $500,000 venture.

Crews will repair 3,400 feet of track — replacing railroad ties, resetting rails and replacing ballast, or the crushed stones on the rail bed.

City Senior Engineer Rory Cameron said the city plans to advertise the project to contractors for bids in April or May. City Council members will then award a contract to the lowest bidder.

This is good news! My wife and I visited Issaquah in 2006 (staying at the RV park near I-90) mostly because I wanted to see the new home of the Italian interurban that had been in San Francisco. I would presume they will use an Astoria/Willamette Shore type generator trailer rather than string trolley wire. The article does not mention the Italian car, but only the ex-Lisbon cars from Aspen CO. These cars present the challenge of being narrow-gauge (900 mm, close to 36"), making either an extra rail (like the loop track at Orange Empire) or regauging the trucks (feasible, but a major task) part of the project.

I thought the Lisbon cars (unlike the similar Oporto cars) were standard gauge.

Old Pueblo Trolley in Tucson got one of the Aspen/Lisbon cars as well, and while the car needed lots of work, I didn't think they were going to have to regauge it.

The (now) Tuscon car has been skinned, all frame members re-enforced with epoxies, the truck completely disassembled for rebuilding. It has a side motion version of the single truck, something I had not seen before. They expect to paint the car for Douglass Arizona, which had similar cars.

The Oporto cars are the standard gauge cars while Lisbon cars are narrow gauge.