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South Shore Line car #105 leads eastbound train #111, a rush-hour Michigan City local, into platform 1 at the 55th-56th-57th St station in the Hyde Park area of Chicago. This is both a busy commuter railroad and the last remaining traditional interurban electric railroad in the country, complete with street running.
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It sucks that the electric interurban stuff got bought up by the oil companies and then effectively shut down/trashed/removed, because of 'competition'. And *NOW* we're realizing our mistakes and wanting to put high speed rail (KRM and Chicago-Milwaukee (to potentially Madison and beyond) Hiawatha line) between our cities.
Yeah, electric railroads of any kind are pretty rare in the US, outside of the Northeast. Electric lines for freight (mostly coal-hauling) exist in the western states, but they are short and few in number. The only real heavy-duty electric rail line in the States is the Northeast Corridor and the lines that feed into it, although electric interurban railroads once existed in huge amounts all across the country. This line is the last survivor of them.
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