Excerpt from Economics of Interurban Railways Notwithstanding the fact that there are over twenty thousand miles of electric suburban and electric interurban railway now in operation in the United States, of which the operating records are available through the medium of the various State Commission reports, and otherwise, there is little data of actual and proven information so compiled as to be useful to the great number of persons, residing in almost every community, who are promoting, or are encouraging the promotion of, an electric interurban railway. The fact that, in almost every instance, electric interurban railways have proven to be popular utilities, has caused much development in the construction of such properties, irrespective of the possible or probable economic result incident to their operation, and, in consequence, many of the undertakings have been unprofitable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare...