 In 1888, the completion of a railroad bridge (the original Steel Bridge) allowed the Oregon & California Railroad to cease using their passenger ferry, which had begun operations in 1870, using barges to move the trains across the river.The last ferry service to operate in the Portland metropolitan area was the Sauvie Island Ferry, replaced in 1950 by the first Sauvie Island Bridge.Ferries crossing the Columbia included the steel "Kalama" (later "Tacoma") which transported trains between Kalama, Washington and Goble, Oregon.