Tony,

There is a fascination about the rural interurban lines in the USA. Maybe the closest we have come in NSW would be the rural section of Newcastle’s Wallsend tramway beyond Lambton. It was originally single track and was later duplicated except for the approaches to Wallsend and Plattsburg..

I travelled on the very last tram to Wallsend, LP 316 in 1949. This tram carried several early ‘tram fans’ , also cinema patrons home from the ‘picture shows’ in Newcastle, then laid up at the terminus for a dawn departure back to Newcastle.

The old Brill max-traction trucks must have gone well beyond their design speed down the hill beyond Lambton. [See attachment].

Noel Reed

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Amazing and wonderful! Those in-town corners at right-angle intersections would give modern street cars a heart attack! (or at least a derailment!)

Thanks so much for posting.

Chas

On 18 October 2017 at 10:46, Tony Gallowayarg@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

Despite being one of the last rural interurban systems there’s little video of the Illinois Terminal railroad on Youtube - but I found this on Facebook :

https://www.facebook.com/bob.kalal.3/videos/10208028792556898/

It’s a contrast to the high frequency inter city operation of the North Shore Line, and more representative of the “typical” midwestern interurban.

They still manage to pile on the speed though.

Tony G

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