Louisville, Kentucky streetcar system and suburban electric rail, 1906 Size:18x24 000 inhabitants - not a

000 inhabitants - not a particularly suitable candidate for a three-line subway system

Indianapolis and Los Angeles

It also had a correspondingly large city streetcar system to match

so it's far less useful than the old interurbans

Louisville, Kentucky streetcar system and suburban electric rail, 1906 Size:18x24 000 inhabitants - not aLouisville of the early 20th century was a rapidly growing industrial city dominated by a shamelessly corrupt Democratic political machine. The biggest issue facing the city at the time was good old fashioned political corruption, with independent Democrats and Republicans allying against the forces of patronage and the machine politics of the city mayor. This came to a head in the 1905 mayoral election, where the Democratic machine had committed