The business end of a heavy-duty California interurban displaying front end equipment for "heavy-rail" cars such as these. Generally, interurbans were built to railroad standard, as opposed to lighter city and suburban trolleys. Interurbans were a means of travelling between rural homesteads and big cities at a time before automobiles and super highways. The longest interurban line in the U.S., the Sacramento Northern Railway's Chico to San Francisco route, which took over six hours to travel, was equivalent in comfort to the best that the railroads could offer.

Photographed by Paul Joyce, June, 1985.
Added to the photo archive by Paul Joyce, June 12, 2006.

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