
Episode 91: Chicago - New York Electric Air Line Railroad
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Electric Trains - A New Trend in the Early 20th Century
In the early 19 hundreds, electric interubents were like a really hot new trend. No one knew at this point ifElectric traction was going to work on steam railroads. Anything that was not an inner urban was a steam railroad. Alexander miller a had his own block signalling company. And while he was on the new and very fast twentieth century limited, that's the new york central train, from new York city to chicago.
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