Milwaukee's deadliest train accident — on Labor Day weekend in 1950 — also helped spell the end of the city's interurban rail system. On Sept. 2, 1950, a Saturday morning, two interurban ...

The Interurban operated from 1910 to 1939, when highways and automobiles made it seem obsolete. The trolley cars were unceremoniously dumped, and the rails were mostly torn up.

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During the interurban’s heyday, four trains ran daily each way. On Saturday nights there was a special “after theater” train that left Spokane at 10:55 p.m. and left Cheney at 12:05 for the ...

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The worst Interurban crash in Indianapolis occurred on Oct. 14, 1927 when an interurban car struck a trailer loaded with people at a rail crossing at 23rd and Emerson Avenue (just south of today's ...

Trains ran about every hour from early in the morning to late into the night. The roughly 90-minute, 29-mile ride cost riders $1.30, according to an article in The Everett Daily Herald at the time.

The last rail car embarked from downtown Kansas City to Olathe on July 9, 1940. Passengers were so unruly, it couldn’t make the return trip.

The Porter County Musuem's new exhibit recalls the county's first interurban rail line, the Valparaiso and Northern Interurban Railway. The Porter County Museum, or PoCo Muse, at 20 Indiana Ave ...