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Posted by Alan Follett on Sat Sep 8 18:53:51 2012, in response to Re: Terminals and ROW shared by Multiple Interurbans., posted by Avid Reader on Sat Sep 8 16:30:49 2012. The North Shore began operation over the "L" into central Chicago in 1919. At most times, the southern terminal was Roosevelt Road, two stops south of the Loop; but for a few years in the 1920's and early 1930's certain Chicago-Milwaukee name trains operated through to Dorchester on the Jackson Park Branch, adjacent to the South Shore's 63rd Street stop. This was a couple of blocks shorter than any CNS&M-CSS&SB connection in or near the Loop.It was never possible to ride through from Chicago to New York or Boston by traction; there was a gap in upstate New York. About the longest relatively direct journey possible by interurbans, possibly with a few short walking transfers or use of city systems, would have been from Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, on Wisconsin Power & Light, to Oneonta, New York, on the Southern New York. (I'm going by memory here. About thirty years ago I published an article in The Timetable Collector giving the specifics of such a journey, but my copy of that issue is currently about 2500 miles away.) Alan Follett Hercules, CA. |
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