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The interurban era / by William D. Middleton.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HE 4471 .M48
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Middleton, William D., 1928-2011.
- Series:
- [Andrew Merrilees Transportation Collection]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Street-railroads--United States--History.
- Street-railroads.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 432 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Milwaukee : Kalmbach, ©1961.
- Contents:
- The coming of the interurban
- The interurban era
- The interurban car
- Roadside and rural : the New England trolley
- Through eastern hills and valleys : the middle Atlantic states
- Trolley sparks in Dixieland : the south Atlantic states
- The interurban's Midwest empire : the north central states
- The McKinley lines : Illinois Traction System
- Insull's interurbans : the great Chicago systems
- Way down south : the south central states
- To far and lonely places : the mountain states
- In the far west : the Pacific states
- Red cars in the southland : Pacific Electric Railway
- Maple Leaf traction : Canada's interurbans
- Traction in the tropics
- Wrecks and other mishaps
- Trolley freight
- Exit the interurban
- Interurban and rural railways in the United States, Canada, and Mexico
- Principal interurban carbuilders
- Principal types of rolling stock, important components, and accessories
- Electrification and current collection
- Electric railway museums in the United States and Canada.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-431).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Middleton, William D., 1928- Interurban era.
- ISBN:
- 0890240035
- 9780890240038
- OCLC:
- 4357897
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