The Visalia Electric Railroad
Author | : Phillips C. Kauke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9781930013155 |
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Author | : Phillips C. Kauke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9781930013155 |
Author | : Louise A. Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2012-11-04 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9780972283748 |
Author | : Western railroader |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1959 |
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Author | : Harre W. Demoro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Steve Crise |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780738575865 |
The Pacific Electric Railway originally provided reliable transportation across more than 1,000 miles of track. Postwar society's affair with the automobile led to the loss of an infrastructure that could have formed the basis for an enviable modern light-rail system, one that current society would be happy to utilize. Authors Steve Crise and Michael Patris look back at the railway and its landscape today. Both serve on the board of the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society, from whose archives most of these images are taken.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1304 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Electric railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Bankston |
Publisher | : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2012-09-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1612283659 |
Steam–powered locomotives helped bring people across the West but they also brought their share of problems. Traveling through enclosed tunnels or past the tall buildings of cities, the smoke from steam engines could be dangerous, even deadly. The story of electric trains is the story of the search for a better way. Electrically powered trains and trolleys helped build cities like Los Angeles. They let people live in new places, even far from where they worked. They were fast and efficient and led to some of the most modern trains on earth.
Author | : Central Electric Railfans' Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Electric railroads |
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Author | : George Woodman Hilton |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780804740142 |
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 the industry to decline after World War I, and the depression virtually annihilated the industry by the middle 1930s. Part I describes interurban construction, technology, passenger and freight traffic, financial history, and final decline and abandonment. Part II presents individual histories (with route maps) of the more than 300 companies of the interurban industry. Reviews "A first-rate work of such detail and discernment that it might well serve as a model for all corporate biographies. . . . A wonderfully capable job of distillation." Trains "Few economic, social, and business historians can afford to miss this definitive study." Mississippi Valley Historical Review "All seekers after nostalgia will be interested in this encyclopedic volume on the days when the clang, clang of the trolley was the most exciting travel sound the suburbs knew." Harper's Magazine "A fascinating and instructive chapter in the history of American transportation." Journal of Economic History "The hint that behind the grand facade of scholarship lies an expanse of boyish enthusiasm is strengthened by a lovingly amassed and beautifully reproduced collection of 37 photographs." The Nation
Author | : Herbert H. Harwood |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253337979 |
This is the fully illustrated story of "The Greatest Electric Railway in the United States" connecting the Lake Erie cities of Toledo and Cleveland. Before its untimely death in 1938 it left a rich legacy of bold innovation and imaginative marketing practice.