List of interurban railways in North America
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This is a list of interurban railways in North America. Elsewhere, the term was not used or did not have the same meaning. The vast majority of these systems are defunct. All were opened primarily as passenger carriers, although many survived as freight railways after passenger service ceased.
Canada
[edit]Provinces not listed did not have interurban systems, which were commonly called radial railways in Canada.
Alberta
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calgary Municipal Railway[1] | |||
British Columbia
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia Electric Railway[2] | |||
Manitoba
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winnipeg Electric Company[1] | |||
| Winnipeg, Selkirk and Lake Winnipeg Railway[2] | |||
Nova Scotia
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Breton Electric Company[2] | earlier Sydney and Glace Bay Railway; later Cape Breton Tramways | ||
| Pictou County Electric Company[2] | |||
Ontario
[edit]Quebec
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hull Electric Company[2] | |||
| Montreal and Southern Counties Railway[2] | 1909 | 1956 | |
| Montreal Tramways Company[1] | 1911 | 1951 | Continued as the Montreal Transportation Commission until 1959 |
| Quebec Railway, Light and Power Company[2] | 1904 | 1959 | Operated under Canadian National Railway 1951 – 1959 |
Cuba
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ferrocarril Cubano de Hershey[1] | 1917 | Present | |
Mexico
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ferrocarril Electrico de Lerdo a Torreon[1] | |||
| Ferrocarril Electrico de Tampico a la Barra[1] | |||
| Ferrocarril Mexicano[1] | Jalapa Branch, not electrified | ||
| Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos[1] | |||
United States
[edit]Alabama
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama Power Company[1] | |||
| Birmingham Railway and Electric Company[1] | |||
| Mobile Light and Railroad Company[1] | |||
Arizona
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas Street Railway[1] | |||
| Phoenix Railway of Arizona[1] | |||
| Warren–Bisbee Railway[2] | March 12, 1908 | May 31, 1928 | Operated by Warren Company |
Arkansas
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Power and Light Company[1] | |||
| Fort Smith Light and Traction Company[1] | |||
| West Helena Consolidated Company[1] | Also Interurban Traction Company | ||
California
[edit]Colorado
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway[2] | |||
| Colorado Springs and Interurban Railway[2] | |||
| Denver and Intermountain Railroad[2] | 1909 | 1950 | Largely rehabilitated as the Regional Transportation District W Line light rail in the 2010s |
| Denver and Interurban Railroad[2] | 1908 | 1926 | |
| Denver and South Platte Railway[1] | |||
| Durango Railway and Realty Company[2] | |||
| Grand River Valley Railroad[2] | |||
| Trinidad Electric Transmission, Railway and Gas Company[2] | |||
Connecticut
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol and Plainville Electric Company[1] | |||
| Connecticut Company[1] | 1907 | Consolidation of several street and interurban railways — see article | |
| Danbury and Bethel Street Railway[1] | 1887 | 1926 | |
| Hartford and Springfield Street Railway[1] | |||
| Shore Line Electric Railway[2] | 1910 | 1923 | Some services acquired by the Connecticut Company |
| Waterbury and Milldale Tramway[1] | November 19, 1913 | October 29, 1933 | |
Delaware
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilmington and Philadelphia Traction Company[2] | Used standard streetcar technology | ||
District of Columbia
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Railway and Electric Company[1] | |||
Georgia
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlanta Northern Railway[1] | July 17, 1905[4] | 1947 | |
| Augusta–Aiken Railway and Electric Corporation[1] | 1902 | 1929 | |
| Fairburn and Atlanta Railway and Electric Company[1] | |||
| Georgia Railway and Power Company[2] | |||
| Savannah Electric and Power Company[1] | |||
Idaho
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boise Valley Traction Company[2] | |||
| Caldwell Traction Company[2] | |||
| Lewiston–Clarkston Transit Company[2] | |||
| Sandpoint and Interurban Railway[2] | |||
| Utah Idaho Central[2] | |||
Illinois
[edit]Indiana
[edit]Iowa
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albia Interurban Railway[1][2] | Later Albia Light and Railway Company | ||
| Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway[2] | |||
| Cedar Rapids and Marion City Railway[2] | |||
| Charles City Western Railway[2] | |||
| Clinton, Davenport and Muscatine Railway[2] | 1926 | 1940 | Earlier Iowa and Illinois Railway (1904), and Davenport and Muscatine Railway (1912) |
| Des Moines and Central Iowa Railroad[2] | |||
| Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railway[2] | November 1907[10] | ||
| Iowa Railway and Light Company[1] | |||
| Keokuk Electric Company[1] | |||
| Mason City and Clear Lake Railroad[2] | |||
| Oskaloosa and Buxton Electric Railway[2] | |||
| Oskaloosa Traction and Light Company[1] | |||
| Southern Iowa Railway[1][2] | Earlier Iowa Southern Utilities Company | ||
| Tama and Toledo Railroad[2] | February 3, 1894 | 1953 | Passenger service abandoned 1925 |
| Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern Railway[2] | |||
Kansas
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas Valley Interurban Railway[2] | 1910 | 1938 | |
| Iola Electric Railway[2] | 1901 | March 1919 | |
| Joplin and Pittsburg Railway[2] | 1907 | c. 1930s | Freight traffic continued until 1951 |
| Junction City and Fort Riley Railway[1] | |||
| Kansas City, Clay County and St. Joseph Railway[2] | 1913 | 1933 | |
| Kansas City, Kaw Valley and Western Railway[2] | 1914 | 1949 | Later Kansas City, Kaw Valley Railroad. Freight traffic continued until 1963 |
| Kansas City, Lawrence and Topeka Railway[2] | 1903 | 1934 | Earlier Kansas City and Olathe Electric Railway; later Kansas City, Merriam and Shawnee Railroad |
| Kansas City, Leavenworth and Western Railway[1] | January 16, 1900 | March 31, 1938 | |
| Manhattan City and Interurban Railway[1] | 1914 | 1926 | |
| Missouri and Kansas Interurban Railway[2] | 1906 | July 9, 1940 | |
| Southwestern Interurban Railway[1] | |||
| Union Traction Company[2] | 1904 | 1947 | Later Union Electric Railway |
| Westmoreland Interurban Railroad[2] | |||
Kentucky
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Traction and Terminal Company[2] | |||
| Louisville and Interurban Railroad[2] | 1904 | 1935 | |
| Louisville and Eastern Railway | 1901 | 1911 | Bought by L&I |
Louisiana
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orleans–Kenner Electric Railway[2] | |||
| St. Tammany Railway and Power Company[1] | |||
| Southwestern Traction Company[2] | |||
Maine
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Androscoggin and Kennebec Railway[1] | Earlier Lewiston, Augusa and Waterville Street Railway | ||
| Aroostook Valley Railroad[2] | July 1, 1910 | 1930s | |
| Atlantic Shore Line Railway[2] | |||
| Bangor Railway and Electric Company[2] | |||
| Biddeford and Saco Railroad[1] | |||
| Cumberland County Power and Light Company[1] | Earlier Portland Railroad | ||
| Lewiston, Augusta and Waterville Street Railway[2] | |||
| Portland–Lewiston Interurban[1][2] | July 7, 1914 | June 29, 1933 | Androscoggin Electric Company |
| Rockland, Thomaston and Camden Street Railway[1] | |||
Maryland
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cumberland and Westernport Electric Railway[2] | |||
| Kensington Railway[1] | |||
| Hagerstown and Frederick Railway[1][2] | August 22, 1896 | February 20, 1954 | Later Potomac Public Service Company |
| United Railways and Electric Company[1] | |||
| Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway[1][2] | 1908 | August 20, 1935 | Later Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad |
| Washington Interurban Railway[2] | |||
Massachusetts
[edit]Michigan
[edit]Michigan had 981 miles (1,579 km) of interurban.[2]
Minnesota
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electric Short Line Railway[2] | 1913 | 1947 | Not electrified |
| Mesaba Railway[2] | December 24, 1912 | April 16, 1927 | |
| Minneapolis, Anoka and Cuyuna Range Railroad[2] | |||
| Minneapolis Municipal Waterworks Railway | While not technically an interurban railway, since it did not connect two cities, it was a freight and passenger hauling electric railway[17][page needed] | ||
| Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester and Dubuque Electric Traction Company[2] | Not electrified; later Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway | ||
| Minnesota Northwestern Electric Railway[2] | 1914 | 1940 | Not electrified |
| St. Paul Southern Electric Railway[2] | November 17, 1914 | July 31, 1928 | |
| Twin City Rapid Transit Company[2] | |||
Mississippi
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gulfport and Mississippi Coast Traction Company[2] | |||
| Laurel Light and Railway Company[1] | |||
Missouri
[edit]Montana
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anaconda Copper Mining Company[2] | |||
| Gallatin Valley Railway[1][2] | |||
Nebraska
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omaha and Lincoln Railway and Light Company[2] | |||
| Omaha and Southern Interurban Railway[2] | |||
| Omaha, Lincoln and Beatrice Railway[2] | Remains in operation as a switching railroad | ||
New Hampshire
[edit]New Jersey
[edit]New York
[edit]North Carolina
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piedmont and Northern Railway[2] | |||
| Piedmont Railway and Electric Company[2] | |||
| Tidewater Power Company[2] | |||
North Dakota
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valley City Street and Interurban Railway[1] | |||
Ohio
[edit]Oklahoma
[edit]Oregon
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Electric Railway[2] | January 1908[10] | ||
| Portland Traction Company[2] | Earlier Portland Railway, Light and Power Company and Portland Electric Power Company | ||
| Southern Oregon Traction Company[2] | |||
| Southern Pacific Company[1][2] | January 17, 1914[19] | October 5, 1929[19] | Southern Pacific Electric Lines, earlier Portland, Eugene and Eastern Railway |
| United Railways[2] | |||
| Willamette Valley Southern Railway[2] | |||
Pennsylvania
[edit]Puerto Rico
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caguas Tramway Company[1] | |||
Rhode Island
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newport and Providence Railway[1] | |||
| Providence and Fall River Street Railway[1] | |||
| Rhode Island Company[1] | Later United Electric Railways | ||
| Sea View Railroad[citation needed] | |||
South Carolina
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Augusta–Aiken Railway and Electric Corporation[2] | 1902 | 1929 | |
| Charleston – Isle of Palms Traction Company[2] | |||
| Columbia Railway, Gas and Electric Company[1] | |||
| Piedmont and Northern Railway[2] | |||
South Dakota
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deadwood Central Railroad[2] | 1902 | 1924 | Narrow gauge railroad that hosted interurban service |
Tennessee
[edit]Texas
[edit]Utah
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bamberger Electric Railroad[2] | Later Bamberger Railroad | ||
| Emigration Canyon Railroad[2] | |||
| Ogden Rapid Transit Company[2] | |||
| Salt Lake and Utah Railroad[2] | |||
| Salt Lake, Garfield and Western Railway[2] | |||
| Utah–Idaho Central Railroad[2] | |||
| Utah Light and Traction Company[2] | Long suburban lines | ||
Vermont
[edit]Virginia
[edit]Washington
[edit]West Virginia
[edit]Wisconsin
[edit]Wyoming
[edit]| Name | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheridan Railway and Light Company[2] | |||
See also
[edit]- List of town tramway systems in North America (covers countries other than U.S. and Canada)
- List of street railways in Canada
- List of town tramway systems in the United States
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 Middleton 1961, pp. 414–418
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 Hilton & Due 1960[page needed]
- ↑ Rice, Walter E.; Echeverria, Emiliano J. "San Francisco's 40-line". The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco. The Museum of the City of San Francisco. Archived from the original on October 19, 2007. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
- ↑ "Streetcars in Altlanta". RailGa.com. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
- ↑ "Joliet-Aurora Line is Opened". Rock Island Argus. Rock Island, Illinois. October 22, 1904. p. 1. Retrieved December 14, 2016.

- ↑ Rice, R. H. (March 9, 1907). "Operation and Construction of the Elgin & Belvidere Railway". Electric Railway Review. XVII (10): 322.
- ↑ "Elgin". Sterling Daily Gazette. Sterling, Illinois. March 10, 1930. p. 2. Retrieved April 13, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.

- ↑ "Woodstock-Sycamore Line Quits". Electric Railway Journal. 51 (17): 827. April 27, 1918.
- ↑ Indiana Public Service Commission, Re Gary & Hobart Traction Company (No. 4802), October 25, 1919
- 1 2 3 "New Track Construction in 1907". Electric Railway Review. XIX (1): 4. January 4, 1908.
- ↑ Wright, Henry Andrew (1949). The Story of Western Massachusetts. Vol. II. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc. pp. 603, 624.
- ↑ Environmental Impact Station and Section 4(f) Evaluation; Route 2- Greenfield, Gill, Erving, Wendell, Orange, Massachusetts. U.S. Department of Transportation. May 10, 1982. p. 30.
- ↑ "Chariots of Change - The Holyoke Street Railway". Holyoke, Mass.: Wistariahurst. Archived from the original on April 18, 2016.
- ↑ "Surrender of Franchise Stuns 'Hamp; But Officials Hope Bus Service May Be Restored Soon". Springfield Union. Springfield, Mass. October 31, 1951. p. 7.
- ↑ Appleton, John (November 3, 1981). "Springfield Street Railway Co. garage turned over to PVTA". Springfield Union. Springfield, Mass. p. 4.
- ↑ Appleton, John (November 3, 1981). "The Springfield Street Railway Co. — now it's another part of PVTA". Springfield Union. Springfield, Mass. p. 13.
- ↑ Olson 1976.
- ↑ Middleton 2001, p. 368.
- 1 2 Thompson 2008, p. 59
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Robert A. Rieder: Electric Interurban Railways from the Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved August 2009.
- ↑ Crowley, Walt (September 19, 2000). "Interurban rail service between Everett and Seattle ends February 20, 1939". HistoryLink.org. Archived from the original on January 8, 2015. Retrieved April 17, 2013.
Bibliography
[edit]- Hilton, George W. & Due, John Fitzgerald (1960). The Electric Interurban Railways in America. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. OCLC 237973.
- Middleton, William D. (1961). The Interurban Era. Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing. OCLC 4357897 – via Archive.org.
- Middleton, William D. (2001) [1974]. When the Steam Railroads Electrified (2nd ed.). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-33979-9. OL 2510988W.
- Olson, R. L. (1976). The electric railways of Minnesota. Hopkins, MN: Minnesota Transportation Museum Inc. ASIN B0006WFVE2.
- Thompson, Richard (2008). Willamette Valley Railways. Mount Pleasant, SC (US): Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-5601-7.