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Originally Posted by Crawford
The Pointes were always an outlier. In terms of regional wealth distribution, better analogues are Philly's Main Line, or Toronto's Yonge corridor. And they were all tied to downtown and the GM and Chrysler HQ via commuter rail, which didn't end until the 1980's.
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Philadelphia's commuter rail in that direction opened in 1832! and is still in use today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut_Hill_East_Branch
A later real picture of how those train cars actually looked:
