[3] YVT Company began operations in 1907 as a streetcar line downtown, opened on December 25.

In the 1970s, the city reached agreement with YVT/UP to allow a then-proposed heritage streetcar operation to use the tracks and overhead trolley wires of the railroad.

Due to declining revenue,[5] Union Pacific filed for abandonment of the YVT on April 26, 1984, and this was approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission on June 5, 1985.

[6] UP retained ownership of the stone carbarn, on Pine Street, but agreed to lease it to the city for only $100 per year.

[7] The YVT was one of the last freight railroads in North America to use trolley poles on its locomotives, never having changed to pantographs.1