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Electric Interurban Railways in America

Electric Interurban Railways in America more books like this

by George W Hilton, Professor John F Due

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 ...

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Ride the Big Red Cars: How Trolleys Helped Build Southern California more books like this

by Spencer Crump

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Interurban Era more books like this

by William D Middleton

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Trolley Wars: Streetcar Workers on the Line

Trolley Wars: Streetcar Workers on the Line more books like this

by Scott Molloy

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 ...

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Pacific Electric Red Cars

Pacific Electric Red Cars more books like this

by Jim Walker

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 ...

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Trolley car treasury : a century of American streetcars-horsecars, cable cars, interurbans, and trolleys more books like this

by Frank Rowsome

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When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails more books like this

by Mac Sebree (Editor), Jack E. Schramm, Richard R. Andrews

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Trolleys : riding and remembering the electric interurban railways more books like this

by Ruth Cavin

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Time of the Trolley more books like this

by William D Middleton

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Sunset Lines: The Story of the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad more books like this

by Larry Plachno

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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

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Cable car carnival

Cable car carnival more books like this

by Lucius Morris Beebe, Charles Clegg

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Interurban Trains to Chicago

Interurban Trains to Chicago more books like this

by John Kelly

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 ...

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Transport of Delight: The Mythical Conception of Rail Transit in Los Angeles

Transport of Delight: The Mythical Conception of Rail Transit in Los Angeles more books like this

by Jonathan Richmond

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 ...

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The Streetcars of New Orleans

The Streetcars of New Orleans more books like this

by Louis Hennick, E Harper Charlton

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Straphanging in the USA: Trolleys and Subways in American Life

Straphanging in the USA: Trolleys and Subways in American Life more books like this

by Martin W Sandler, Oxford University Press (Creator)

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, ...

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The Como-Harriet Streetcar Line: A Memory Trip Through the Twin Cities more books like this

by Aaron Isaacs

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Cable Car more books like this

by Christopher C Swan

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The Cable Car in America

The Cable Car in America more books like this

by George W Hilton

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 ...

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Cleveland's Transit Vehicles: Equipment and Technology

Cleveland's Transit Vehicles: Equipment and Technology more books like this

by James A Toman, Blaine S Hays, Jim Toman

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.

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Trolleys and Streetcars on American Picture Postcards more books like this

by R D Appel, Ray D Appelgate (Editor)

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.

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Street Railways of Louisiana more books like this

by Louis Hennick, E Harper Charlton

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Indiana Railroad: The Magic Interurban more books like this

by George K. Bradley

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When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails more books like this

by William Henning, William Andres, Jack E Schramm

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Chicago surface lines; an illustrated history more books like this

by Alan R. Lind

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