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	Houston Streetcars - Galveston-Houston Interurban
		The Galveston-Houston Electric Railway was a separate operation from the Houston Electric (the city streetcar lines), although it was under the same corporate umbrella and consequently there was some sharing of tracks and facilities.
		Although it cannot be compared to such great interurban systems as the Pacific Electric or the Illinois Terminal, as a single-line company it ranks among the very best ever operated, both in terms of physical facilities and quality of service.
		The Galveston-Houston interurban was famous for its 34-mile "tangent," one of the longest sections of dead straight track on any electric line in the nation.
	members.iglou.com /baron/interurban.htm (405 words)

	Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Electric interurban railroads mushroomed across America in response to the growing desire of rural and suburban folk for cheap and efficient access to urban life.
		Interurbans generally operated on private rights-of-way, using larger, heavier, and faster vehicles than the trolley cars which ran on city streets.
		The larger interurban cars were sold to the giant Pacific Electric system in the Los Angeles basin, which was desperate for vehicles to haul war workers to San Pedro.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/88summer/br-interurban.htm (587 words)

	St. Joseph/Kansas City Interuban History
		The KCCCC&STJ railway was in the terminology of the day--an Interurban.
		The interurban trains always moved slowly mainly because they were operating thru the change-over from 1200 volts to 600 volts on city car lines, and then too, because they were trains and not street cars.
		The word Interurban was first put in usage in America around 1900 as a term to define this enterprise as different from municipal trolley lines.
	www.interurbanroad.com /history.htm (3460 words)

	Streetcars of the Monumental City - Baltimore Ghosts
		Much dismissed as a slow moving nuissance to automobiles, the city's streetcar system, which began in 1859, was electrified beginning about 1890, and was abandoned by late 1963 moved large numbers of people about the bustling city with unparrallled efficiency.
		Streetcars called the "Car Barns" home in between jaunts along their lines.
		Among the three most picturesque streetcar lines in the area, along with the Ellicott City and Bay Shore routes, the Lorraine Line offered an unusual ride out to the middle of no-where, or so it seemed.
	www.monumentalcity.net /streetcars (514 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		An interurban, also called a radial railway in parts of Canada, is a streetcar line running between urban areas or from urban to rural areas.
		Interurbans often used the tracks of existing street railways through city streets, and when those street railways were not built to standard gauge, the interurbans had to use non-standard gauges as well or face the expense of building their own trackage through urban areas.
		By the 1930s, the interurbans began to disappear, although some of their rail lines were taken over for the use of freight drawn by steam engines.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=interurban (3043 words)

	East Lansing - Streetcar
		For many years, beginning around the 1880s, an electric streetcar line along Michigan Avenue came only as far east as the Half-way Stone, but by 1894 the line had reached the west entrance of the school (now Beal Entrance).
		This was in spite of the objections of the State Board of Agriculture, who feared that the streetcar would bring an "undesirable human element" to the campus from Lansing, as well as allow easy access to Lansing's saloons by college students.
		Ironically, streetcar service to campus turned out to be an amenity that helped spur the College's first substantial increase in attendance.
	kevinforsyth.net /ELMI/streetcar.htm (591 words)

	Streetcar, Interurban, and Railroad Information
		This interurban was a standard-gauge line along the Ohio River from Anderson's Ferry, at the west end of Cincinnati, to Aurora, Indiana (25 miles), with a branch from Valley Junction to Harrison, Ohio (8 miles).
		Conway believed that there was still a place for the interurban in the medium distance range of passenger traffic, and thus conceived of regrouping the main lines of the former Ohio Electric.
		Streetcar service was introduced on the line to Glendale, ending at a loop at the corner of Sharon Road and Springfield Pike.
	homepage.mac.com /jjakucyk/Transit1/mapinfo.html (8100 words)

	Illinois - A ride through time - Features - Feature - Illinois Times
		The Interurban was an electrified railroad with tracks laid down the center of the streets that it served.
		Today, the Interurban's legacy continues not as a electric railroad company, but through the landscape, the people who help preserve its history, historical structures that have survived, and multi-purpose trails that have been built along its old corridor.
		Although the Interurban toots are long gone, today pedestrians and bicyclists can get on one of a few developed trails that have been opened to the public on a portion of the old Interurban rail corridor.
	www.illinoistimes.com /gbase/Gyrosite/Content?oid=oid:2768 (2318 words)

	Streetcars
		Portland’s first electric streetcar took to the rails in 1889 and carried passengers across the Steel Bridge to the town of Albina.
		Construction on Portland’s long-lived Interurban lines began in 1890, operating as the East Side Railway, and service was quickly established to the town of Sellwood.
		The streetcars are a little smaller than light rail trains, they are low to the ground and don’t require expensive lifts for people using wheelchairs.
	www.pdxhistory.com /html/streetcars.html (1224 words)

	4-shelby
		This attempt by the city to impose new rules on the Interurban, after it had finished its track work, in compliance with the franchise it had obtained from the Shelby County Fiscal Court, was to be fought in federal and state courts until 1913.
		The Interurban's position was that it was legally in procession of its track, wire, and depot in the newly-annexed area, being upheld in every state and federal court decision on this issue.
		The Interurban company, to end future court action against it by the city of Shelbyville, agreed to maintain a brick pavement between its track, plus three feet on each side of the track, from the old city limits to the new city limits.
	kentuckyexplorer.com /nonmembers/4-shelby.html (3271 words)

	Interurban streetcar - Definition, explanation
		Interurban and radial railway were names used to describe streetcar lines connecting urban areas, primarily during the early 20th century.
		After 1910 the popularity of the Ford Model T automobile began to diminish the interurban passenger load and during the 1920s many interurban systems were declared bankrupt.
		By the 1930s the interurban passenger street cars began to disappear, although some of their rail lines were converted from electric traction to the carriage of freight drawn by steam engines.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/i/in/interurban_streetcar.php (752 words)

	TriMet: A History of Public Transit in Portland
		A 16-mile interurban electric railway and high-voltage transmission line were constructed from Willamette Falls in Oregon City to Portland–one of the first attempts at long-distance electrical transmission.
		Interurban railway service now extended from Vancouver south to Eugene and Corvallis, and from Gresham and Troutdale west to Forest Grove and McMinnville.
		The pioneer interurban electric rail line to Oregon City and the trolleybuses died out as ridership declines to less than a fifth of its wartime level.
	www.trimet.org /about/history/transitinportland.htm (951 words)

	Fox River Trolley Museum - Official Web Site - Newsletter
		The interurban's heritage is interwoven with the development of the Fox River Valley.
		Electric streetcars were preceded by horse-car street railway lines operating in Elgin and Aurora in the 1880's.
		Streetcars were also affordable to the general public with their fare of five cents for adults and three cents for children under 12 years of age.
	www.foxtrolley.org /newsletters/FRL-00-2.HTM (3137 words)

	The Story of Missoula's Streetcar #50 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Missoula’s first streetcar system, a horse-drawn car, began operation in May of 1892 and operated through August of 1897 when re-planking of the Higgins Street Bridge necessitated the removal of the tracks.
		City cars were capable of speeds of “practically 8 mph and the interurban at 16.4 mph.” Over a period of 2 1/2 years, 2,500,000 passengers were served and approximately 1,000,000 car miles were run by the two services.
		When streetcar service ended in Missoula, most of the cars were placed in a tourist camp on the northwest side of the city.
	www.fortmissoulamuseum.org /Streetcar.htm (792 words)

	CHICAGO TRANSIT & RAILFAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The streetcar lines have been replaced with buses and the interurbans are mostly gone, but Chicago remains the railroad center of the nation.
		In the early 1900's, electric interurban lines were developed to handle many local passengers in the Midwest, including in the Chicago area.
		Two other notable interurban lines existed in Chicago through the 1950's, and most of the rights of way are now trails.
	members.aol.com /chirailfan/index.html (763 words)

	The City of Cleveland Heights
		Cleveland Heights is a city that can be characterized as a 'streetcar suburb.' This is a community whose development was largely shaped by the advent of the electric streetcar, an invention that made suburban properties easily accessible to those who worked in Cleveland, but desired suburban living.
		Both the affluent and working class utilized streetcars as their primary transportation from the turn-of-the-century through the 1920s, when automobiles gained popularity.
		An interurban was a type of electric streetcar intended for travel between urban areas, often sharing tracks with local streetcars.
	www.clevelandheights.com /historyarch_streetcar.asp (898 words)

	The Streetcar Conspiracy
		The electric streetcar, contrary to Van Wilkins incredible naïve whitewash (this article is a response to an earlier article by Van Wilkin, which argued that commuter rail lines died a natural death), did not die a natural death: General Motors killed it.
		There were 1,200 separate electric street and interurban railways, a thriving and profitable industry with 44,000 miles of track, 300,000 employees, 15 billion annual passengers, and $1 billion in income.
		The streetcar did not die, as Wilkins contended, because of demographics or economics or disinvestments or evolution; it died because GM in 1922 made a conscious decision to kill it and, for the next several decades, pursued a strategy designed to accomplish this objective.
	www.saveourwetlands.org /streetcar.htm (1398 words)

	Why the Interurban Lost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Version #1: The interurban had its heyday as long as its technological development stayed ahead of that of the automobile.
		State and municipal governments were forced to yield to public demand and shift funds from the development and maintenance of interurban cars and lines and shift to paving roads.
		Version #2: The interurban was an effective competitor of the automobile and heavy locomotive for quite awhile.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/INCORP/interurbanrail/lost.html (688 words)

	Free Congress Foundation Online ---
		And of course, the loss of the core of the interurban to Waukesha and beyond, was indeed a tragic.
		Many corporate entities that controlled Milwaukee Electric destroyed the streetcar and trolley system, scraped all the copper wire, the cars, etc., and then turned over a piece of paper (the charter for the system) to the county for a considerable sum, which then was worth nothing.
		The elimination of the streetcar, interurban, North Shore Line, and the railroads, were tragic mistakes caused by corporate enemies and stupid politicians.
	www.trolleycar.org /observations/ronaldkotas/kotas010904.htm (3905 words)

	Interurban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chicago Transit Authority's Yellow Line, otherwise known as the Skokie Swift, is the southernmost five miles of the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee's 1924 high speed Skokie Valley Route.
		Not only was this the first interurban line in the world, but it was also one of the first commercially successful implementations of electric streetcars in the world.
		The whole large interurban system in continuous service exists however since 1894 at Upper Silesia in Poland connecting cities and towns of this densily populated region (See Silesian Interurbans for more information).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Interurban_streetcar (2071 words)

	Portland Trolley Chronology
		PRLandP presided over a system of 28 streetcar and interurban lines that reached their zenith in the years just prior to World War I. PRLandP's standard vehicles were long-vestibuled "Pay-As-You-Enter" (PAYE) cars built by the American Car Company.
		Although PEPCO was operating the 3rd largest narrow gauge streetcar system in the US, growth slowed during the 1920s as cutbacks in service and labor, such as remodeling equipment to facilitate one-man car operation, became the norm.
		In 1946 the interurban lines were turned over to a new company called the Portland Railroad and Terminal Division which launched a modernization plan, bringing in several used streetcars from other cities for their suburban service.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /dthompso1/Chronology.html (1784 words)

	Lesson 22 - Teaching Cleveland: Grades 9-12
		To familiarize students with the streetcar and interurban systems which provided cheap and efficient transportation for Cleveland residents at the turn of the century.
		Why were streetcars and interurbans an important means of transportation for the ordinary Clevelander at the turn of the century.
		Distribute copies of the interurban schedule and the accompanying worksheet to the students in the class.
	www.nhlink.net /education/teaching/hs/hs22.htm (335 words)

	Japanese Transit
		Many of Japan's mid-size cities have city streetcar or interurban systems for transportation.
		This city is still converting some of their former streetcar/ interurban lines to subway lines
		The big one, 12 subway lines, a huge commuter network and one remaining city streetcar line, and a private interurban line along with some other surprises.
	ktransit.com /transit/japan.htm (258 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Interurban Rail Transit in King County and the Puget Sound Region -- A Snapshot History
		At this time, streetcar services and most other utilities were privately financed and owned, although their performance was subject to charters or "franchises" granted by cities and other local governments.
		The rapid multiplication of uncoordinated streetcar and interurban lines in the late nineteenth century begged for consolidation.
		By then, the company was already offering interurban bus service on its North Coast Lines, but it remained committed to the Seattle-Everett route and built a handsome bus-rail depot at 9th Avenue and Stewart Street in Seattle (now the Greyhound Terminal).
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=2667 (1551 words)

	ONONDAGA STREET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Streetcars operated between downtown Ames and the Iowa State College campus between 1907 and mid-1929.
		The Interurban streetcar, which began service in Ames in 1907, is in the center of the photo.
		Looking east on Main Street from the Kellogg Avenue corner as two men alight from the Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern interurban streetcar which is headed east (note the direction of the trolley).
	www.amespubliclibrary.org /farwell/publication/Pub8143.htm (469 words)

	Museum History
		In 1946, a group of like-minded individuals learned that an old Oakland streetcar that they had chartered for a day’s outing was to be scrapped within a week.
		In this spirit of philanthropy and historic preservation, the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association was created to foster interest in streetcar, interurban, and mainline electric railroad operations, and to preserve these rapidly vanishing pieces of history.
		In the following years, many interurbans and streetcars were collected, as well as smaller artifacts such as photographs, corporate records, books, fare boxes, and signage.
	www.wrm.org /about/museum_history.htm (418 words)

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