The Transportation Historian<p>2,798 miles.</p><p>There was once 2,798 miles of fully <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/electric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electric</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/interurban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interurban</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/track" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>track</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a>. That's more miles than than the current interstate highways in Ohio, and more miles than any other state had.</p><p>Not a single town with a population over 10,000 (and many even smaller towns) did not have an interurban line, and many were also served by traditional <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rail</span></a>.</p><p>And we lost it all.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicTransport</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/train" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>train</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trains</span></a></p>