The Interurban was a series of one-car electric trains that ran between small towns in the mid 20th century. I recall picking up the older woman who came via Interurban to Springfield from Staunton to babysit us in the 50s onward. I remember being fascinated by the one-car train she exited.

If only we’d kept those unique forms of mass transit, perhaps the crazy, gas-guzzling interstate system might not have become such a necessity; a necessity that makes us dangerously dependent on the billions of barrels of oil shipped daily to U.S. ports from afar.