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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by daveklepper Most interurban lines DID at one time or another have freight service. All the famous ones did, the three Insull interurbans of Chicago, who interchanged with steam railroads (South Shore is also a diesel freight railroad today.) Here is a list from memory: Pacific Electric Railroad cars Sacramento Northern Railroad cars Waterloo Ceder Falls and Northern Railroad cars Crandic Railroad cars Mason City and Clear Lake Railroad cars Texas Electric both railroad cars and interurban box motors with wood trailers Add Springfield Interurban (Springfield Ohio) to your list. John. Indiana Railroad ditto Cincinnati and Lake Erie Interurban cars and trailers only, as far as I know Lehigh Valley Transit Converted passenger cars to freight motors and trailers North Shore, South Shore, and CA&E Railroad cars Laural Line Railroad cars Illinois Terminal Railroad Cars Milwaukee ("TM") Railroad cars and interurban cars Washington Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad cars Lehigh Valley Transit (Liberty Bell LImited) Interurban freight motors West Penn and Pittsburgh Railways Interurban Motors and trailers Piedmont and Northern Railroad cars Lake Shore Electric Interurban Motors and Trailers The real interurbans that were not just really suburban trolley lines upgraded, like Key System, were few in number that did not run freight trains. True, many of the interurbans that used interurban equipment and did not exchange with regular railroads simply rebuilt old passenger equipment into freight equipment, and in some cases, this meant just a freight trailer (usually wood, and sometimes with cleristory roofs retained) running behind steel motor passenger cars. In addition to reading about these services, I actually rode pure trolley freight on the Lehigh Valley Transit (and freight service through to 69th Street continued after passengers had to change to Red Arrow "bullets" at the Norristown Station), and Charles City Western. In most cases, lines handling regular railroad cars, continued in freight service for some time after passenger service was ended. [/quote]
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