http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNQk9V5TQDE
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I thank you from the bottom of my heart for posting this. I truly have never enjoyed a film on the Internet more than this. Even if some of the sound was faked, it certainly sounded authentic and some could not possibly have been faked. I have the CERA "Magic Interurban" book and this film made it come more alive. I noted one shot of an RPO car with its different door arrangement than the other heavyweights, and there was a non-Indiana RR Brill Peter Witt Indianapolis Railway car to add to the pleasure.
It reminded me of the wonderful times that cannot (?) be repeated riding the Liberty Bell between Phily and Allentown. Those of you who view this film and then ride the St. Louis Light Rail line to Bellevill and East can tell me how that operation measures up as a recreation of the Midwest Interurban. I am certainly going to view it a second time!
BACK HOME AGAIN, IN INDIANA... but I never lived there, only drove through on the 'pike. Until now! Front row, center seat, the clickey clack at what, 60? alright 50 maybe. Swing, sway, sing, what a sight! You actully feel what it was like!
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daveklepperI thank you from the bottom of my heart for posting this. I truly have never enjoyed a film on the Internet more than this. Even if some of the sound was faked, it certainly sounded authentic and some could not possibly have been faked. I have the CERA "Magic Interurban" book and this film made it come more alive. I noted one shot of an RPO car with its different door arrangement than the other heavyweights, and there was a non-Indiana RR Brill Peter Witt Indianapolis Railway car to add to the pleasure. It reminded me of the wonderful times that cannot (?) be repeated riding the Liberty Bell between Phily and Allentown. Those of you who view this film and then ride the St. Louis Light Rail line to Bellevill and East can tell me how that operation measures up as a recreation of the Midwest Interurban. I am certainly going to view it a second time!
It really provides a palatable sense of the IR. ... the guy clinging on to the rear of a freight trailer as it backed up...or the pacing shots of a multiple car run...I intuitively felt that others would have the same reaction and Im pleased that it did. What I wouldn't exchange for a ride...judging from the film, I would have been glued to a front seat.The radius of those terminal curves...good grief!
Only two High Sppeds survived. The Insull Chicago interurbans, Texas Electric, and Illinois Terminal did send people to look at the cars. Two were set aside for the continued power company franchise operation from Indianapolis to Seymore, and one of these is at Union, Illinois Railway Museum, after use at Crandic, and after it did make a fan trip run on the North Shore, where it was stored for a while near North Chicago Junction. One other was bought by Lehigh Valley Transit from the scrap dealer to replace an ex Cincinnati and Lake Erie "red evil" that suffered fire damage, and it is at Seashore. The South Shore bought the three heavyweight RPO cars, and I believe one may still be the South Shore line car. Truly a shame that the others were scrapped. During WWII they could have provided excellent service with reduced maintenance and better operation on:
Market St. Ry/Muni's SF-San Mateo interurban
Pittsburgh Railways Pittsburgh-Washington PA and Pittsburgh-Charleroi-Roscoe
Laural Line (L&WV) Scranton-Willks-Barre
Canadian National Quebec City - St. Joachim
Baltimore and Annapolis
Bamburger Salt Lake City - Ogden, replacing the heavy cars with the similar bullets retained
Very interesting.....The downtown scenes of the streetcar / interurban station sure appears to be or one like here in Muncie. The train shed {and probably the station}, here was dismantled about 1958.
Quentin
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