The Oregon Electric Railway was completed during the first decade of the 1900s, first running from Portland to Wilsonville and then extending to Salem and Eugene after a mile-long trestle across the Willamette River was finished in 1907. As the railroad trestle arrived, thriving riverbank businesses moved north along Boones Ferry Road to be near the train depot, creating a new town center. The railroad tracks and trestle gradually ended the riverboat trade and the 38 steamboat landings along the eight-mile stretch between Canby Ferry and the old wheat port of Butteville, since until then most goods had traveled by steamboat. Sixteen trains a day ran between Portland and Eugene, with eight northbound and eight southbound, and the fastest, the “Capitol City Flyer,” left Portland at 9:15 a.m. daily and reached Salem at 10:50 a.m. Many Wilsonville students rode the Oregon Electric into Portland to attend high school, and the rail cars carried people and products to Portland in about 45 minutes. By 1926, automobile traffic had cut so deeply into Oregon Electric passenger revenue that passenger service ended, while the ferryboat continued operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, averaging 80-90 trips every eight hours for farmers and travelers. The train depot was later turned into an agricultural supply store and was finally torn down in the late 1950s.