Issaquah Valley Trolley  The Issaquah Valley Trolley (IVT) is a heritage streetcar line in Issaquah, Washington, United States. It is a project of the Issaquah History Museums (formerly known as the Issaquah Historical Society). The IVT operates from the Issaquah Depot Museum building located at 78 First Ave, NE. The service operated on a trial basis in 2001–02 and has operated on a regular basis, seasonally, since 2012. After restoration of the Issaquah Depot neared completion in 1989, a group of Issaquah Historical Society members considered options for active use of the tracks leading to and from the restored depot. Discussions included dinner trains, passenger trains and eventually led to the easier to manage streetcar option. In 2001–02, a trolley car borrowed from Yakima Valley Trolleys was operated along existing, former-freight railroad track to prove the concept that an operating trolley in Issaquah would attract ridership. The borrowed streetcar had arrived in Issaquah in October 2000, and began carrying passengers on May 19, 2001, with the service operating on Saturdays and Sundays from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. through the summer and again in spring 2002. In spring 2001, a small carbarn to house the trolley car was built adjacent to the Issaquah Depot. It is long, with a capacity to store just one trolley (and its towed generator). IVT sometimes refers to it as the "display building", because glass windows on its west side allow the public to see the trolley car inside. After returning the borrowed trolley to Yakima in May 2002, Issaquah acquired three trolleys of its own: an ex-Milan interurban car (No. 96) from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and two narrow gauge ex-Lisbon trolleys (Nos. 519 and 521, originally built by the J. G. Brill Company and assembled in Lisbon in 1925) from a failed plan for a trolley line in Aspen, Colorado. None was able to operate, as they all needed restoration work before being usable for service, and the ex-Lisbon trolleys also required "re-gauging" from gauge to to enable them to run on the existing railroad track in Issaquah. In March 2012, one of the ex-Lisbon cars, No. 519, was sent to the Gomaco Trolley Company, in Iowa, for restoration and re-gauging of its truck.