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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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