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Dick Pintarich has a chapter on Western Oregon electric rail in his wonderful book Great and Minor Moments in Oregon History, including a nice chart. Lots of cities not covered on the Wiki but then they were likely just stops on the line. Most every town of any note in the Willamette Valley was on a tram line in 1915.
The list does NOT include "inter-urbans", which is a major shortcoming.
If one includes interurbans, the turn of the century effort becomes even more impressive !
However, the definition of short line RRs vs. interurbans is fuzzy at best. And electric & gasoline powered streetcars would operate over the same tracks as freight trains (FRA safety rules do not allow this today), so was that an interurban ?
I understand the difficulties of investigation of long defunct service and his exclusion of interurbans from his compliation. I just wish that they were included !
Best Hopes for Back to the Future,
Alan
One of the largest/best developed Interurban networks was in Indiana.
Here is a map
The hub of the network was in Indianapolis, which had the world's largest interurban terminal:
My memory might be failing me, but I seem to remember this structure still being used by the city bus system in the early 60s when we would visit relatives in Indpls.
My mother has told me stories of going out on dates in the early 1940s and taking the interurban from Kokomo to Indpls. I grew up in Indiana and remember older folks talking about their fond memories of the interurbans and lamenting their demise.
Sadly, that structure is long gone, and Indy now has perhaps the worst public transportation of any US city its size. Indianapolis does, however, have an ambitious plan to make its downtown more bike- and pedestrian-friendly:
http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/10/15/indianapolis-paves-the-way-for-bik...