Electric Interurban,1920
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A DC-powered passenger train loading up at the Palouse station circa 1920. The Palouse line of the Spokane and Inland Empire used some of these types of passenger trains,but it utilized AC power in most of them.
Image courtesy of Whitman County Rural Heritage.
http://www.washingtonruralheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/whitman/id/1572/rec/7
This file appears in: The Interurban Railroad
The Interurban Railroad
All but forgotten today, the Palouse once had its own mass transit--the S&IE Interurban Railway, affectionately known as "the Bug."
As the population of the western states dramatically increased in the early 20th century, railroad…