A high speed interurban car on display at the Carillon Historic Park in Dayton, Ohio. While it looks like a trolley car this is actually known as an "Interurban" which in the early part of the 20th century were used as high speed light rail vehicals that provided passenger services between most of the countries major cities.

From the 1900's to the 1930's there were networks of independent electrically powered rail lines which connected major urban centers together providing the public with high speed travel between major cities. These cars would travel at speeds of over 70 MPH.