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Travel by passenger trains in the [[United States]] began in the 1830s and became popular in the 1850s and '60s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Union Pacific Passenger Trains |url=https://www.up.com/heritage/history/passenger_trains/index.htm |website=www.up.com |access-date=27 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=First Passenger Trains In America: History, Facts, Photos |url=https://www.american-rails.com/early.html |website=American-Rails.com |access-date=27 January 2022|language=en}}</ref>[[File:City_of_San_Francisco_SP_Advertisement_1938.jpg|thumb|In the United States, [[streamliner]] trains, such as the ''[[City of San Francisco (train)|City of San Francisco]]'', were developed beginning in the 1920s1930s to reinvigorate passenger train services and compete against automobiles and aircraft.]] The first electric passenger train was exhibited at the [[Berlin Industrial Exposition 1879]].<ref name=SAelectric /> The first successful commercial electric passenger train, the [[Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway]], ran a year later in [[Lichterfelde (Berlin)|Lichterfelde]].<ref name=SAelectric>{{cite journal|date=5 June 1915 |title=Making a New industry |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/26022230 |journal=Scientific American |volume=112 |issue=23 |pages=544–547 |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican06051915-544 |jstor=26022230 |access-date=3 February 2022}}</ref>