(Part Two of Two in this Story) In 1912 the Indianapolis and Louisville Traction Company went into receivership and was reorganized as the Indianapolis and Louisville Traction Railway Company with it’s general offices in Scottsburg. Six Dixie Flyers traveled south to Louisville and six Hoosier Flyers made the trip to Indianapolis daily, each 117-mile trip…
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(Part One of Two in this Story) The first significant rival of the steam railroad in Indian was the electric railway. The use of electric power for transportation began with the street railway, one of the earliest recorded attempts at electrification was made in South Bend Indiana in 1882. The work of Frank Sprague in…