Trolley-Train Hybrid Tackles City Streets, Then Speeds to Suburbs

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5. We Used To Have Things Like Those Here In The US

They were called "Interurbans." Admittedly, they weren't that fast, but they not only ran on street car tracks in the cities, but also ran at higher speeds out beyond city limits on their own rights-of-way.

Of course the breathless journos writing today's copy don't know anything about that.

To name a few interurban systems:

The Key System

The Pacific Electric Railroad

Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee,

Texas Electric Railway

Washington, Baltimore and Anapolis Railroad

Indiana Railroad