Author: Osmond Richard CummingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portland-Lewiston Interurban
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Portland-Lewiston Interurban
Author: Osmond Richard CummingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portland-Lewiston Interurban
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Portland-Lewiston Interurban
Author: Osmond Richard CummingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portland-Lewiston Interurban Railroad Co
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Maine's Fastest Electric Railroad
Author: Osmond Richard CummingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Portland's Interurban Railway
Author: Richard Martin ThompsonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738596175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
At the end of the 19th century, Portland led the nation in the development of interurban electric railways. The city became the hub of an electric rail network that spread throughout the Willamette Valley. This is the story of the pioneering local railways that started it all as they built south along the Willamette River to Oregon City and east to Estacada and Bull Run in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. More than 200 historic images illustrate Portland's Interurban Railway from its rudimentary beginnings through the peak years, when passengers rode aboard the finest examples of the car builders' art, to the sudden end in 1958.
The Electric Interurban Railways in America
Author: George Woodman HiltonPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804740142
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
One of the most colorful yet neglected eras in American transportation history is re-created in this definitive history of the electric interurbans. Built with the idea of attracting short-distance passenger traffic and light freight, the interurbans were largely constructed in the early 1900s. The rise of the automobile and motor transport caused the industry to decline after World War I, and the depression virtually annihilated the industry by the middle 1930s. Part I describes interurban construction, technology, passenger and freight traffic, financial history, and final decline and abandonment. Part II presents individual histories (with route maps) of the more than 300 companies of the interurban industry. Reviews "A first-rate work of such detail and discernment that it might well serve as a model for all corporate biographies. . . . A wonderfully capable job of distillation." Trains "Few economic, social, and business historians can afford to miss this definitive study." Mississippi Valley Historical Review "All seekers after nostalgia will be interested in this encyclopedic volume on the days when the clang, clang of the trolley was the most exciting travel sound the suburbs knew." Harper's Magazine "A fascinating and instructive chapter in the history of American transportation." Journal of Economic History "The hint that behind the grand facade of scholarship lies an expanse of boyish enthusiasm is strengthened by a lovingly amassed and beautifully reproduced collection of 37 photographs." The Nation
The interurban era
Author: William D. MiddletonPublisher: William D. Middleton
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The interurban era
Electric Railroads
Author: Report
Author: Maine. Public Utilities CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Biennial Report of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Maine
Author: Maine. Public Utilities CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Central Maine Power Company Railway Papers
Author: Central Maine Power CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Papers concerning the interest in the building of the Portland-Lewiston Interurban Railroad and its various phases.