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  2. Syracuse and Suburban Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The Syracuse and Suburban Railroad, an interurban rail in Syracuse, New York, was chartered on June 29, 1895.The main line of this electric road, also known as the Syracuse and Suburban Electric Railroad and the Syracuse and Eastern Railroad, ran 15 miles (24 km), over the beds of city streets, extending from Syracuse to Fayetteville and Manlius where it ended at Edwards Falls, a local tourist ...

  3. Metra Electric District - Wikipedia

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    The electric tracks continued north to Randolph Street Terminal. The "IC Electric" was once Chicago's busiest suburban railroad, and carried a great deal of traffic within the city as well as to suburban communities. The three lines carried 26 million passengers in 1927, the first full year of electrified operation.

  4. Sudbury and Copper Cliff Suburban Electric Railway - Wikipedia

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    The early history of the railway was coloured by concerns about Copper Cliff becoming a suburb of Sudbury. An earlier 1906 plan for a Sudbury, Copper Cliff, and Creighton Electric Railway that would have connected the two centres with the now-abandoned mining town of Creighton had been discarded after heavy opposition from Copper Cliff merchants, who feared the decline of the town's commercial ...

  5. Electrical element - Wikipedia

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    Only nine types of element (memristor not included), five passive and four active, are required to model any electrical component or circuit. [2] Each element is defined by a relation between the state variables of the network: current , I {\displaystyle I} ; voltage , V {\displaystyle V} ; charge , Q {\displaystyle Q} ; and magnetic flux , Φ ...

  6. Criticism of suburbia - Wikipedia

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    A review by Czech and colleagues [5] finds that urbanization endangers more species and is more geographically ubiquitous in the mainland United States than any other human activity. Sprawl leads to increased driving, which in turn leads to vehicle emissions that contribute to air pollution and its attendant negative impacts on human health .

  7. London Overground - Wikipedia

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    London Overground (also known simply as the Overground) is a suburban rail network serving London and its environs. Established in 2007 to take over Silverlink Metro routes, it now serves a large part of Greater London as well as Hertfordshire, with 113 stations on the six lines that make up the network.

  8. Suburban Secrets - Wikipedia

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    Suburban Secrets is a 2007 American non-fiction television series created by truTV. It is produced by Sirens Media. The show is described as being a cross between City Confidential and Desperate Housewives. Some cities that the show has documented: Pleasant Garden, North Carolina; Grapevine, Texas; Aliquippa, Pennsylvania; Little Compton, Rhode ...

  9. Chevrolet Suburban - Wikipedia

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    The "Suburban" name was also used on GM's fancy 2-door GMC 100 series pickup trucks from 1955 to 1959, called the Suburban Pickup, which was similar to the Chevrolet Cameo Carrier, but it was dropped at the same time as Chevy's Cameo in March 1958 when GM released the new all-steel "Fleetside" bed option replacing the Cameo/Suburban Pickup ...