Pittsburgh used to have a sizable suburban operation with trains operating over PRR, B&O and P&LE. MILW used to operate a single round trip out of Milwaukee to Watertown. MP operated a single round trip out of St. Louis to Pacific, MO.
Camden, NJ had commuter service on Penn Central's Pemberton branch until 4-25-69. Baldwin BRS12sx (Penn Central's class) 8084 had the honor of propelling the last run with a P70 equipped with a headlight, zebra stripes and an air horn for back-up moves. The evening consist added a PRSL P70 to accommodate the crowd of last riders. PRSL ran service from Millville into Camden until '70 or '71. All other PRSL service into Camden ended with the construction of the Patco high speed line in the late 60's, this being primarily connecting shuttles from Haddonfield with trains from Atlantic City, Cape May/Wildwood/Ocean City. Shuttles, which could incidentally, could be operated with a G5s tender first at 40mph if one should happen to stumble across one. PRR Trenton-Camden service ended in 1963 with a gas electric, 4666 I'm pretty sure.
The Milwaukee Road ran over sixty commuter trains each day between Minneapolis and St. Paul in the 1800s. The St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba RR ran at least a couple dozen between the two cities in the same time frame.
The New York Susquehanna and Western Railroad a/k/a the Suzie Q operated between Butler, New Jersey and New York using a ferry connection at Jersey City. It operated commuter service in Bergen and Passaic Counties but stopped all commuter service in 1968.
The New Haven Railroad used to run the Beacon Hill, a morning train from New Haven to Boston that made all, and I mean all, local stops along the line. People used it to commute to Providence. Either Penn Central or Amtrak stopped the train and stopped serving many of the stations it stopped at.
Englewood, Tenafly, Bergenfield, Dumont, Harrington Park -- all the cities and towns along the Northern branch and the old West Shore.
Pittsburgh-PAT train,,,Cleveland -Erie Laccawanna to Y town.,,,,Albany NY-Had a loop of commuter trains that went Albany-Waterlievet-Troy-Schtadady that ran up untill 1959-1960.Detroit,...I would assume Kansas City would have been had commuter locals. A commuter train is deferent then a local in that its used for workers and had 10 ride tickets or passes.
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