Detroit electric interurban railways, 1913 Size:14x14 and a week of celebration

and a week of celebration followed

and Seattle came within a nose of having the federal government fund a full-blown subway system

Three years later

at the extreme southwest edge of downtown

and Return of the King

Detroit electric interurban railways, 1913 Size:14x14 and a week of celebrationIn 1913, Detroit was booming, and was the cutting edge of the industrial era. It was what Silicon Valley is today. But in 1913, the automobile was a brand new technology the Ford Model T had only gone into production in 1908, and the freeway era was still a half century away. In this period, Detroiters got around the region by train (we'd recognize it today as a form of electric light rail) and travel times would be competitive with modern driving.