Streetcars once criss-crossed Chicago`s hinterland. In addition to providing transportation, they blazed a trail of real estate development. Long before the expressways charted the blossoming of ...

Interurban electric railway cars once crisscrossed the United States. Self-propelled, efficient, fast and inexpensive, they ran within and between cities before the general public owned automobiles.

The red-painted steel machine towers and intimidates inside a rural barn north of Noblesville, though its insides are gutted and century-old parts are strewn about the dirt floor. There were thousands ...

While it may not be big on electric cars yet, Indiana was a leader in electric rail in the late 19th century. Driving the (old) news: The Hoosier state played a vital role in interurbans, electric ...

By definition, interurbans powered by electricity, not steam, never diesel; and that difference made all the difference. For one, it meant that relatively little capital was all it took to get an ...

This Sig Byrd column was originally published in the Houston Chronicle on May 23, 1960. Herb Woods' "Galveston-Houston Electric Railway" was originally published in 1959 and updated over the next few ...

The South Shore Line is the sole survivor from the days of interurban railroads. Before the explosion in popularity of the automobile, electric interurban railroads were an easy way to get from nearby ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A vital but largely unsung part of Indiana’s past is now “back on track” in Indianapolis. “The Electric Railway: Indiana’s Interurbans” is a new exhibit from the Indiana ...

Between 1900 and the mid-1930s, the best way to get from city to city in Indiana and much of the rest of the U.S. was the "interurban" rail car. Interurbans were like a city streetcars, but traveled ...

Back in the early 1900s, interurbans, or electric railway cars, ran straight down the middle of Main Street in Reynoldsburg, heading east to Hebron and on to Newark. The lines were among numerous ...