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David Edmondson on March 23, 2018 at 3:08 pm

I am working on a similar piece for Saint Louis. I tried to figure out service levels but, honestly, trains were so damn slow it didn't make much difference. The slowest coal trains in Saint Louis were about 18mph, almost all trains were in the mid-20smph, and a few expresses hit 35mph. I think one got above 40.

As for trips per day, that was also kind of a toss-up. Half-hourly service was exceptionally rare for intercity trains, but hourly hardly seems worth indicating. At the scale of this map - the scale of the Official Guide - intramunicipal rail service was not advertised anyway unless you were PRR and could afford the luxury.

So, we get this, which is much more about service pattern than accessibility.

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