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Rockford & Interurban Railway - Schafer, Mike, Professor, and Landis, Brian
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With today's America dominated by the automobile, it is difficult to believe that until the 1920s nearly 100 percent of the US population traveled via rail. Conventional passenger-train service spread rapidly by the 1850s, but another form of rail transportation did not emerge until the turn of the 20th century: the interurban. Almost always electric, interurbans linked cities with burghs. Rockford, one of Illinois's three largest urban centers during the 20th century, enjoyed a system appropriately named the Rockford & ...

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Rockford & Interurban Railway 2015, Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

ISBN-13: 9781531669904

Hardcover