Capital Streetcars
Title | Capital Streetcars PDF eBook |
Author | John DeFerrari |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2015-09-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1625856199 |
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.
New Haven Streetcars
Title | New Haven Streetcars PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738512273 |
The first street railway began operating in New York City in 1832. New Orleans inaugurated a street railway system in 1835, and most of the large American cities-Boston, Brooklyn, and Baltimore-were served by the end of the 1950s. In May 1861, more than a year before the nation's capital introduced this new mode of transit, the forty thousand residents of New Haven were furnished with local rail transportation. New Haven's population more than quadrupled between 1861 and 1948, and the city became Connecticut's largest manufacturing center. Street railways made it possible to reach both residential and manufacturing areas. New Haven Streetcars illustrates the essential role played by streetcars in the transformation of the city, with images from each of the six groups of lines that served the New Haven area, including the Yale Bowl open cars, the universal dump cars, the safety cars, and the horse-drawn cars.
Capital Streetcars: Early Mass Transit in Washington, D.C.
Title | Capital Streetcars: Early Mass Transit in Washington, D.C. PDF eBook |
Author | John DeFerrari |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467118834 |
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.
Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses
Title | Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Helton |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738553696 |
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
Title | The Expanded Red Hook Streetcar Project | A Cure For Transportation Deserts PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Diamond |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 2015-11-14 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1329689593 |
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.
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
Title | 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 PDF eBook |
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Publisher | |
Pages | 996 |
Release | 1997 |
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Streetcar Suburbs
Title | Streetcar Suburbs PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Bass WARNER |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674044894 |
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.