Dr. Charles Mutschler, EWU archivist, explains how Spokane benefitted from the use of the Interurbans in the "Hinterlands"

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This file appears in: The Interurban Railroad

How the Interurbans were an economic benefit for the region's hub of Spokane. Residents of Palouse towns Interurban adjacent used the passenger trains for spending their money in Spokane,as opposed to Spokane injecting money into the Palouse economy. It was the trains use for shipment of agriculture which the palouse really benefitted from.

Thank you Dr. Charles Mutschler,EWU's resident railroad expert and university archivist.

This file appears in: The Interurban Railroad

By Robert M. Lambeth
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…