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Metropolitan railways : rapid transit in America / William D. Middleton.
Lippincott Library HE4500 .M53 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Middleton, William D., 1928-2011.
- Series:
- Railroads past and present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Local transit--North America--History.
- Local transit.
- Railroads, Local and light--North America--History.
- Railroads, Local and light.
- Street-railroads--North America--History.
- Street-railroads.
- Subways--North America--History.
- Subways.
- History.
- North America.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- The quest for rapid transit
- The era of the elevated
- Rapid transit goes underground
- Rapid transit at midcentury : new systems and a new era
- New metro technologies
- Light rail transit : new life for an old technology
- Conveyances for the multitudes : the cars we rode
- A metropolitan railways renaissance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0253341795
- OCLC:
- 49681301
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