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Author | : John DeFerrari |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625856199 |
Download Capital Streetcars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Washington's first streetcars trundled down Pennsylvania Avenue during the Civil War. By the end of the century, streetcar lines crisscrossed the city, expanding it into the suburbs and defining where Washingtonians lived, worked and played. One of the most beloved routes was the scenic Cabin John line to the amusement park in Glen Echo, Maryland. From the quaint early days of small horse-drawn cars to the modern "streamliners" of the twentieth century, the stories are all here. Join author John DeFerrari on a joyride through the fascinating history of streetcars in the nation's capital.
Author | : LeRoy O. King (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
Download 100 Years of Capital Traction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : D. David Bregger |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738557502 |
Download Buffalo's Historic Streetcars and Buses Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Buffalo has witnessed the evolution of mass transportation through the decades, from the International Railway Company's streetcars in 1902 to the formation of the Niagara Frontier Transit System (NFT) Metro in 1974. The Great Gorge Route, the world's most famous scenic electric railway, offered passengers unparalleled views of Niagara Falls. By 1950, the NFT became known as one of the most progressive and profitable bus transportation networks in America. In 1985, following mergers between transport companies, streetcars were reinstated, bringing public transportation full circle. After over a century of innovation, Buffalo's mass transportation has proven to be a lasting and venerated testament to the history of the region. Buffalo's Historic Streetcars and Buses is a tribute to the people and equipment that serviced this great city for generations.
Author | : National Capital Historical Museum of Transportation, Incorporated |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780971293601 |
Download Capital Transit Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Sam Bass WARNER |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674044894 |
Download Streetcar Suburbs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the last third of the 19th century Boston grew from a crowded merchant town, in which nearly everybody walked to work, to a modern divided metropolis. The street railway created this division of the metropolis into an inner city of commerce and slums and an outer city of commuter suburbs. This book tells who built the new city, and why, and how.
Author | : Gary Helton |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738553696 |
Download Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the 1850s, Baltimore's 170,000 residents had few options when it came to getting around town. Before the decade's end, however, the omnibus--an urban version of the stagecoach--emerged as Baltimore's first mass-transit vehicle. Horsecars followed, then cable cars, and ultimately electrically powered streetcars. Recognizing the need for cohesion, the city's myriad transit providers merged into a single operator. United Railways and Electric Company, incorporated in 1899, faced the unenviable task of integrating routes being served by inadequate, incompatible, and often obsolete equipment. Over the next seven decades, privately run mass transit in Baltimore survived bankruptcy, a name change, two world wars, the proliferation of private automobiles, a takeover by out-of-town interests, and a plethora of new vehicles. Arguably a unified system of privately operated mass transit was no closer to being a reality in 1970, when it reached the end of the line and was taken over by the state.
Author | : Bob Diamond |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2015-11-14 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1329689593 |
Download The Expanded Red Hook Streetcar Project | A Cure For Transportation Deserts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fresh look at an idea who's time has come. A modern waterfront streetcar line, interconnecting the transportation deserts of the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront, with each other, and the NYC mass transit system.
Author | : Frank Rowsome |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Street-railroads |
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Download Trolley Car Treasury Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A century of American streetcars, horsecars, cable cars, interurbans, and trolleys.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 996 |
Release | : 1997 |
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Download Canal Streetcar Line Reintroduction, Canal Street from the Mississippi River to the Cemeteries, Spur Line to City Park, City of New Orleans, New Orleans Parish Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Kenneth C. Springirth |
Publisher | : America Through Time |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2016-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781634990127 |
Download Streetcars of Washington Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Street Cars of Washington D.C. is a photographic essay of the history of the well-kept modern street car system that provided frequent transit service to much of our nation's capital up to its closure in January, 1962. Washington D.C. was the first North American city to operate its entire base service by President's Conference Committee (PCC) cars. Washington D.C. had the fifth largest PCC car fleet in North America. While these cars had poles for overhead wire operation, they were the only PCC cars in the world equipped with plows for conduit operation. Washington D.C. PCC cars, all built by St. Louis Car Company, were about two foot shorter in length or one less window than other PCC cars, because of short clearances in car house transfer tables. The Silver Sightseer in Washington D.C. was the world's first air conditioned street car. Fifty four years later in February 2016, street cars returned to Washington D.C. All of this has been included in Street Cars of Washington D.C.