Sacramento Northern Railway
The Sacramento Northern Railway was a 183-mile (295 km) electric interurban railway that connected Chico in northern California with Oakland via the California capital, Sacramento. In its operation it ran directly on the streets of Oakland, Sacramento, Yuba City, Chico, and Woodland and ran interurban passenger service until 1941 and freight service into the 1960s.
A GE Steeplecab street-running in Yuba City, California in 1964
Car ferry 'Ramon' of the Oakland, Antioch, and Eastern Railway
Northern Electric Railway right of way with third rail power, 1909
Sacramento Northern Birney car 62 at the Western Railway Museum, Rio Vista, California
The interurban is a type of electric railway, with tram-like electric self-propelled rail cars which run within and between cities or towns. The term "interurban" is usually used in North America, with other terms used outside it. They were very prevalent in many parts of the world before the Second World War and were used primarily for passenger travel between cities and their surrounding suburban and rural communities. Interurban as a term encompassed the companies, their infrastructure, their cars that ran on the rails, and their service. In the United States, the early 1900s interurban was a valuable economic institution, when most roads between towns, many town streets were unpaved, and transportation and haulage was by horse-drawn carriages and carts.
An interurban car from the Philadelphia & Western Railroad, which survived long in the interurban business
Kusttram, The Belgian Coast Tram, is a European interurban tramway.
Aigle–Sépey–Diablerets railway line in Switzerland
The Keihan Keishin Line is a Japanese interurban.