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1	Electric Interurban Railways in America more books like this by George W Hilton, Professor John F Due add to wishlist One of the most colorful yet neglected eras in American transportation history is re-created in this definitive history of the electric interurbans. Built with the idea of attracting short-distance passenger traffic and light freight, the interurbans were largely constructed in the early 1900s. The rise of the automobile and motor transport caused ... see all copies from $29.67! new only from $29.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Ride the Big Red Cars: How Trolleys Helped Build Southern California more books like this by Spencer Crump add to wishlist see all copies from $7.57! signed copies \| first editions
3	Interurban Era more books like this by William D Middleton add to wishlist see all copies from $14.05! signed copies \| first editions
4	Trolley Wars: Streetcar Workers on the Line more books like this by Scott Molloy add to wishlist American cities' rapid expansion after the Civil War fueled the growth of organized transportation systems - omnibuses, horsecar, and, later, electric streetcars. "Trolley Wars" traces the social dynamics of these first mass-transportation systems as they developed in Rhode Island, the most urbanized state in Gilded Age America. Covering years of ... see all copies from $3.30! new only from $12.59! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Pacific Electric Red Cars more books like this by Jim Walker add to wishlist Of the rail lines created at the turn of the 20th century, in order to build interurban links through Southern California communities around metropolitan Los Angeles, the Pacific Electric grew to be the most prominent of all. The Pacific Electric Railway is synonymous with Henry Edwards Huntington, the capitalist with many decades of railroad ... see all copies from $16.07! new only from $16.07! \| SVS
6	Trolley car treasury : a century of American streetcars-horsecars, cable cars, interurbans, and trolleys more books like this by Frank Rowsome add to wishlist see all copies from $3.80! first editions \| SVS
7	When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails more books like this by Mac Sebree (Editor), Jack E. Schramm, Richard R. Andrews add to wishlist see all copies from $25.00! signed copies \| first editions
8	Trolleys : riding and remembering the electric interurban railways more books like this by Ruth Cavin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
9	Time of the Trolley more books like this by William D Middleton add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! first editions
10	Sunset Lines: The Story of the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad more books like this by Larry Plachno add to wishlist see all copies from $35.68! new only from $49.94! \| first editions
11	The Atwood-Coffee catalogue of United States and Canadian transportation tokens more books like this by Roland C. Atwood, John M. Coffee, Harold V. Ford, American Vecturist Association. Catalogue Committee add to wishlist see all copies from $22.50!
12	Cable car carnival more books like this by Lucius Morris Beebe, Charles Clegg add to wishlist see all copies from $6.95! new only from $15.43! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Interurban Trains to Chicago more books like this by John Kelly add to wishlist Interurban Trains to Chicago follows Samuel Insull's Great Chicago Systems, three superb interurban routes powered by electric traction that carried passengers from the north, west and southwest into downtown Chicago. They were the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad, Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad, and the Chicago Aurora and ... see all copies from $18.13! new only from $36.74!
14	Transport of Delight: The Mythical Conception of Rail Transit in Los Angeles more books like this by Jonathan Richmond add to wishlist This is a true interdisciplinary work which includes a thorough analytical assessment of the Los Angeles rail programme, with a focus on the Long Beach Blue Line light rail - the first of the new projects to go ahead. En route, it shows that ridership forecasting for this project was not only biased and statistically invalid, but in fact done to ... see all copies from $5.37! new only from $19.08! \| SVS
15	The Streetcars of New Orleans more books like this by Louis Hennick, E Harper Charlton add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00! new only from $31.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16	Straphanging in the USA: Trolleys and Subways in American Life more books like this by Martin W Sandler, Oxford University Press (Creator) add to wishlist A riveting look at the evolution of transportation in American cities, Straphanging in America begins with an examination of the horsecar and omnibus, then traces the extraordinary impact of the cable car, elevated railway, interurban, and subway on city life -- and the nation. Capturing people's imaginations with its "magical" use of electricity, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.56!
17	The Como-Harriet Streetcar Line: A Memory Trip Through the Twin Cities more books like this by Aaron Isaacs add to wishlist see all copies from $9.00!
18	Cable Car more books like this by Christopher C Swan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
19	The Cable Car in America more books like this by George W Hilton add to wishlist Enriched with almost 700 illustrations, this book has long been the definitive study of the American Cable Car, a widely touted form of urban transformation once operated in 29 cities across the United States. The once-promising technology proved inefficient, however, and cable cars were soon replaced by electric trolley cars. Today, they are only ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
20	Cleveland's Transit Vehicles: Equipment and Technology more books like this by James A Toman, Blaine S Hays, Jim Toman add to wishlist The social and political aspects of Cleveland's public transportation history are the subject of this companion volume to "Horse Trails to Regional Rails". This volume describes and lists both the early vehicles and the modern ones. see all copies from $6.77! new only from $24.00! \| first editions
21	Trolleys and Streetcars on American Picture Postcards more books like this by R D Appel, Ray D Appelgate (Editor) add to wishlist One hundred ninety-oone views--16 in full color--spanning all 50 states except Alaska, plus District of Columbia and San Juan, P.R.; mostly from 1890's to 1920. Captions. total of 104pp. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $54.99! \| first editions
22 view cover	Street Railways of Louisiana more books like this by Louis Hennick, E Harper Charlton add to wishlist see all copies from $26.46! new only from $26.46! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Indiana Railroad: The Magic Interurban more books like this by George K. Bradley add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00! new only from $34.94! \| first editions
24	When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails more books like this by William Henning, William Andres, Jack E Schramm add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00! new only from $25.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
25	Chicago surface lines; an illustrated history more books like this by Alan R. Lind add to wishlist see all copies from $16.62! new only from $30.00! \| first editions

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