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   They still run in #Philadelphia, San Francisco, and on the Mattapan, the old "High Speed" Line outside #Boston.

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     (The video above shows a vintage 1932 trolley from Scranton, the "Electric City" of Pennsylvania.)

     Some years back, I sought out still-running cable cars and trolleys across the US, from Kennebunkport to San Diego.

     I loved the PCC, the streamlined Cadillac of electric streetcars...

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     By 1920, the network of interurbans in the US was so dense that a determined commuter could theoretically
     hop interlinked services from Waterville, Maine, to Sheboygan, Wisconsin—a journey of 1,000 miles—exclusively by electric trolley.

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