On 05.11.15 21:22, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 3:40:51 PM UTC-5, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:   
   >   
   >>    wrote:   
   >>> Rt 23 (Germantown Ave--Chestnut Hill/South Philadelphia) will be split   
   >>> into two bus routes.  This was once the longest trolley route in the   
   >>> world.   
   >>   
   >> After several other, longer routes were closed, one would assume?  I mean,   
   >> the Skokie Swift went all the way to Milwaukee, and I am pretty sure there   
   >> was some street running a.k.a "trolley" service along the way.   
   >   
   > I think the 23 was classified as a city streetcar line, while the North   
   Shore was classified as an Interurban, two different types of systems.    
   Interurban lines could run for hundreds of miles, but city streetcar lines   
   tended to be much shorter.   
   >   
   > What were some long streetcar routes in New York City?   
   >   
   Indeed. There are Interurbans that are still running all over Europe.   
      
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