Possibly thousands. This is south of Seattle. Because roads were given millions of dollars but railroads were given none and not nationalized, the railroad industry declined rapidly.
Possibly thousands. This is south of Seattle. Because roads were given millions of dollars but railroads were given none and not nationalized, the railroad industry declined rapidly.
Fucking LA out of all places had the Red Car network which today would be a complete streetcar system/interurban for the entire region. One they are trying to recreate only a fraction of with massive costs.
Or checkout the interurbans that ran in the Chicago area. Being a large city Chicago of course has an extensive streetcar network (that they replaced with shitty buses) but it also had an equally extensive interurban network. So you could go from streetcar to interurban to get to the ring cities like Elgin, Aurora, Joliet, etc. You could also go BETWEEN those cities. Hell you could take it all the way to Milwaukee. All electric, all light rail. The only remaining parts of this I think are the South Shore Line and the CTA Skokie Swift which uses part of the extensive North Shore Line.
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