The Interurban Era by William Middleton, is available online complete from cover to cover

the Cincinatti and Lake Eire

  

 This isn't a passenger car. St Louis municipal codes were a problem, so they made this engine look like a passenger car. Expensive, sneaky, but effective

Two engine drivers had a contest to see who could get out of the railyard... they were pretty stubborn at carrying on despite the obvious equality of power, size, and brakes.   Gloversville New York

 New Haven railway 1896, this car seats 80

Provo Utah, 1917

see it all at http://www.archive.org/stream/interurbanera00midd#page/n5/mode/2up