Trolleys and Subways
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Street Smart: Streetcars and Cities in the 21st Century
by Gloria Ohland and Shelley Poticha  Publisher Comments This richly illustrated book is about streetcars and the tremendous private investment they help generate. There are case studies of the most robust new systems and the ways they've been used to leverage ambitious public goals like affordability and high-...
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Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars (Images of Rail)
by Jim Walker Publisher Comments Local rail-borne transit in Los Angeles began with horsecars in 1874, evolving with cable-powered and later electric-powered passenger vehicles. "Yellow Cars" describes the principal local transit system in and around Los Angeles in the first half of the...
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Straphanging in the USA: Trolleys and Subways in American Life (Transportation in America)
by Martin W Sandler Publisher Comments 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...
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San Francisco's Powell Street Cable Cars (Images of Rail)
by Emiliano Echeverria Publisher Comments San Francisco's cable cars are an internationally recognized symbol of the city, but they also have a long and fractious history. There are actually three cable lines in operation today: the California Street line and the two Powell Street lines -- the...
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Pacific Electric Red Cars (Images of Rail)
by Jim Walker Publisher Comments 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...
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Subway Style: 100 Years of Architecture & Design in the New Yorkcity Subway
by Andrew Garn Publisher Comments October 2004 marks the 100th anniversary of the largest underground transit network in the world. Love it or hate it, if you're a New Yorker, you can't live without it: 3.5 million people ride the rails every day. The subway is as much a symbol of New...
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Hudson Valley Heritage Series #2: Rails Under the Mighty Hudson: The Story of the Hudson Tubes, the Pennsylvania Tunnels, and Manhattan Transfer
by Brian J Cudahy Publisher Comments Rails Under the Mighty Hudson tells a story that begins in the final years of the nineteenth century and reaches fulfillment in the first decade of the twentieth: namely, the building of rail tunnels under the Hudson River linking New Jersey and New York....
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Railways of San Francisco (Images of Rail)
by Paul Trimble Publisher Comments It may be hard to believe now, but San Francisco was once dominated by railways. Before private cars crowded this hemmed-in city, rail was the only way to get around the challenging terrain, and the rail industry rose to the task with many innovative...
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Great Society Subway : a History of the Washington Metro (06 Edition)
by Zachary M. Schrag Publisher Comments Whether trying to avoid the crawl along the Belt, the horrendous parking situation, or the stress induced by the ludicrous and inadequate street marking, Marylanders, Virginians, and folks from the nation's capital eschew the car and hop the Metro. Here...
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The New York Subway
by Brian J. (edt) Cudahy Publisher Comments This is a complete facsimile of the 1904 edition originally published by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company to commemorate the opening of New York's first subway line. From the perspective of both urban history and the history of transportation, this...
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722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
by Clifton Hood Publisher Comments In this definitive history, Clifton Hood traces the complex and fascinating story of the New York City subway system, one of the urban engineering marvels of the twentieth century. For the subway's centennial the author supplies a new foreward explaining...
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Life Below: The New York City Subway
by Christophe Agou Publisher Comments From its beginnings in the early part of the 20th century, the New York City subway has captured the imaginations of photographers from Walker Evans to Bruce Davidson, and many more. But never has it been so powerfully and lyrically portrayed as in these...
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Labyrinths of Iron: Subways in History, Myth, Art, Technology, & War
by Benson Bobrick Book News Annotation Reprint of the esteemed book originally published by Newsweek Books in 1981. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Buses Trolleys & Trams
by Chas S Dunbar
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Surf Sand & Streetcars a Mobile History
by Charles S Mccaleb
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Cable Car Days in San Francisco
by Edgar Kahn
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Electric Traction Quarterly Volume 3
by James Johnson
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Archaeology of the Cable Car
by W W Hanscom
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Tracks, tires, and wires :public transportation in California's Santa Clara Valley
by Charles Mccaleb
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Buses Trolleys & Trams
by Chas Dunbar
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