Interurban Nations.

A requiem for North America's overhead wires, and the tracks that led into the woods.

I’ve long been fascinated by the traces, still visible in rusty stretches of track in asphalt in city streets and alongside country roads, of the electric transit networks that operated in much of North America a century ago.

By 1920, the network of interurban trains in the United States was so dense that a determined commuter could hop interlinked stree…