Electric interurban | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 01/07/2019

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interurban


00:01:26 1 Definition of "interurban"
00:03:31 2 History
00:03:39 2.1 Emergence
00:05:15 2.2 Growth
00:06:28 2.3 Decline
00:09:06 2.4 Survivors
00:11:46 3 Infrastructure
00:11:54 3.1 Right of way
00:12:37 3.2 Trackage
00:13:56 3.3 Electrification
00:16:07 4 Trains
00:16:16 4.1 Rolling stock
00:18:31 4.2 Passenger trains
00:19:43 4.3 Freight trains
00:20:51 5 In literature
00:21:53 6 Preservation
00:22:08 7 See also



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The interurban (or radial railway) is a type of electric railway, with streetcar-like light electric self-propelled railcars which run within and between cities or towns. They were prevalent in North America between 1900 and 1925 and were used primarily for passenger travel between cities and their surrounding suburban and rural communities. Limited examples existed in Europe and Asia. Interurban as a term encompassed the companies, their infrastructure, and the cars that ran on the rails.
The interurban, especially in the United States, was a valuable cultural institution. Most roads and town streets were unpaved, and transportation was by horse-drawn carriages and carts. The interurban provided vital transportation links between the city and countryside. In 1915, 15,500 miles (24,900 km) of interurban railways were operating in the United States. For a time, interurban railways were the fifth-largest industry in the United States.

 
By 1930, most interurbans were gone, with few surviving into the 1950s. Oliver Jensen, author of American Heritage History of Railroads in America, commented that "...the automobile doomed the interurban whose private tax paying tracks could never compete with the highways that a generous government provided for the motorist."