A.H.C.: An electric railway network - in the American Midwest?

I'll try to find where the article is but at one time I read that you can go from Maine to Iowa by Interurban which of course meant a lot of changes. SEPTA didn't close the Allentown to Philadelphia until late 50s early 60s,
That, I want to see. Not sure where I read it (might have been The Interurban Era or The Time of the Trolley) about the Boston-to-New York trip, and the New York-to-Chicago trip albeit with the 20 mile or so gap in upstate New York. I'd be fascinated to see the timing of such a potential (and obviously physically demanding) route.

Picky point, but SEPTA didn't acquire PTC, Philadelphia's transit system, until 1968, and didn't acquire Red Arrow until 1970. By then, Lehigh Valley Transit was kaput: the Liberty Bell Allentown/Philadelphia service ended in 1951.
 
That, I want to see. Not sure where I read it (might have been The Interurban Era or The Time of the Trolley) about the Boston-to-New York trip, and the New York-to-Chicago trip albeit with the 20 mile or so gap in upstate New York. I'd be fascinated to see the timing of such a potential (and obviously physically demanding) route.

Picky point, but SEPTA didn't acquire PTC, Philadelphia's transit system, until 1968, and didn't acquire Red Arrow until 1970. By then, Lehigh Valley Transit was kaput: the Liberty Bell Allentown/Philadelphia service ended in 1951.

This is the information I got from the book The Interurban era by William D Middleton. It doesn't give dates unless you go back through the whole book and as much as I'd like to I don't have the time it state that interurbans were in Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland District of Columbia Virginia West Virginia Georgia Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Missouri South Dakota Nebraska Kansas kentucky-tennessee Alabama Mississippi Arkansas Louisiana Oklahoma Texas Montana Idaho Wyoming Colorado Utah Arizona state of Washington Oregon California and in Canada if you have any interest Nova Scotia Quebec Ontario Manitoba Alberta British Columbia Mexico Cuba Puerto Rico. If anyone is really into Interurban I inherited this book from my grandfather who was born in 1903 as a Christmas present late 60s early 70s it's a really interesting Trove of information. If you can get a hold of a copy of this book it's well worth the money.
 
I own that book; just not at hand at the moment. My quibble is that although there were interurbans in all of those jurisdictions, connections, whether physical or cross-platform, didn't necessarily exist.
 
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