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Capital Streetcars

Capital Streetcars
Author: John DeFerrari
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-09-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625856199

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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.


100 Years of Capital Traction

100 Years of Capital Traction
Author: LeRoy O. King (Jr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1972
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

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Buffalo's Historic Streetcars and Buses

Buffalo's Historic Streetcars and Buses
Author: D. David Bregger
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738557502

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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.


Capital Transit

Capital Transit
Author: National Capital Historical Museum of Transportation, Incorporated
Publisher:
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2001
Genre:
ISBN: 9780971293601

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Streetcar Suburbs

Streetcar Suburbs
Author: Sam Bass WARNER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674044894

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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.


Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses

Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses
Author: Gary Helton
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738553696

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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.


The Expanded Red Hook Streetcar Project | A Cure For Transportation Deserts

The Expanded Red Hook Streetcar Project | A Cure For Transportation Deserts
Author: Bob Diamond
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2015-11-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1329689593

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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.


Trolley Car Treasury

Trolley Car Treasury
Author: Frank Rowsome
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1956
Genre: Street-railroads
ISBN:

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A century of American streetcars, horsecars, cable cars, interurbans, and trolleys.


Streetcars of Washington

Streetcars of Washington
Author: Kenneth C. Springirth
Publisher: America Through Time
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781634990127

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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.