certainly one of the first truly interurban and i would argue the first major interurban also appeared in ohio. it connected that municipality in its corporate name. high-speed, double trap line in 1895. ofwas depression --3-1897 a local syndicate 1897. a local syndicate paid for it and it was a moneymaker. diversefrom akron, a manufacturing center before the rubber industry took control and cleveland, which was not a mistake on the lake, a lot of smart money and smart people anxious to live there and stay put. and now the craze was on. we will start to see interurban madness. let me add parenthetically, that when we look at the canals, the builtrosperous ones were in the best areas. now the new york area can -- erie canal. and when they were building the canal from lisbon, that was not the best location to have a profitable ditch operation. so, it was realized, certainly some05 or so that maybe in localities the best routes had interurbansd and built and maybe we cannot build more in that immediate vicinity. the big question, why were they popular? we have an inkling by looking at tho

clemson university professor talks about the rise of the interurban electric rail at the end of the 19th century. they were similar to numeral ural trolley. these local systems allowed people to get to city centers in a cheap, reliable way. he talks about them as precursors to the light rail of today. his classes about an hour and 10 minutes. a we are going to begin

a telephone call was overheard on the interurban telephone by inattentive telephone operator. someone was saying they have the whole city surrounded, how do we get out of here? a voice said breakup and leave one by one. the operator was convinced that she was listening to the terrorists. she gave the number to the local police and fsb. they called the number expecting to be connected to the terrorist. they were connected to the sfb central headquarters in moscow, the security police. a description of the persons who had placed the bomb in the basement was provided and they were caught. they were arrested and promptly produced fsb documents. now, the russian authorities were in a very difficult position. they had announced that the residence had successfully prevented a terrorist attack. now the terrorist have been caught and who did they turn out to be, but sfb agents. so the head of the s fsb got on national television literally hours after it had been announced that the terrorist were caught and said that actually this was not an attempted terrorist act, it was was a drill.

clemson university professor roger grant talks about the history of american historytation and the of interurban electric rail at the end of the 19th century. they were similar to trolleys. for the rise of the personal automobile these local systems allowed people from rural areas to get to city centers and a cheap reliable way. he talks about them as precursors to the light rail of today his class is about an hour and 10 minutes. >> we are going to begin a three-part study. it is certainly one of the least studied aspects of american transportation history. the overall theme and one that i want you to keep in mind is that we can make the argument that the electric trolley is the