Author: Kenneth Schramm
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738540276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Detroit's Street Railways tells the story of public transportation in the Motor City. Dating back to 1863, when horse-drawn streetcars serviced the citizenry, public transportation in Detroit has a proud and colorful history. Early on, a host of streetcar companies carried Detroiters about their daily business. This period was followed by consolidation into one company, the Detroit United Railway, and later the establishment of the municipally owned Department of Street Railways. The Department of Street Railways, established May 15, 1922, inherited a vast system of streetcar lines throughout Detroit, the first city in the United States to establish municipally owned transit system. It was a leader and innovator in the transit industry, with continued streetcar service until April 8, 1956, when the last streetcars on Woodward Avenue were replaced by buses. When the Department of Street Railways began coach operations in 1925, the intent was to provide feeder service to the established streetcar lines, as expansion costs were prohibitive. Sadly, the program implemented to complement the city's streetcar operations led to the demise of the streetcar as the principal mode of transportation in the Motor City.
Detroit's Street Railways
Author: Kenneth Schramm
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738540276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Detroit's Street Railways tells the story of public transportation in the Motor City. Dating back to 1863, when horse-drawn streetcars serviced the citizenry, public transportation in Detroit has a proud and colorful history. Early on, a host of streetcar companies carried Detroiters about their daily business. This period was followed by consolidation into one company, the Detroit United Railway, and later the establishment of the municipally owned Department of Street Railways. The Department of Street Railways, established May 15, 1922, inherited a vast system of streetcar lines throughout Detroit, the first city in the United States to establish municipally owned transit system. It was a leader and innovator in the transit industry, with continued streetcar service until April 8, 1956, when the last streetcars on Woodward Avenue were replaced by buses. When the Department of Street Railways began coach operations in 1925, the intent was to provide feeder service to the established streetcar lines, as expansion costs were prohibitive. Sadly, the program implemented to complement the city's streetcar operations led to the demise of the streetcar as the principal mode of transportation in the Motor City.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738540276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Detroit's Street Railways tells the story of public transportation in the Motor City. Dating back to 1863, when horse-drawn streetcars serviced the citizenry, public transportation in Detroit has a proud and colorful history. Early on, a host of streetcar companies carried Detroiters about their daily business. This period was followed by consolidation into one company, the Detroit United Railway, and later the establishment of the municipally owned Department of Street Railways. The Department of Street Railways, established May 15, 1922, inherited a vast system of streetcar lines throughout Detroit, the first city in the United States to establish municipally owned transit system. It was a leader and innovator in the transit industry, with continued streetcar service until April 8, 1956, when the last streetcars on Woodward Avenue were replaced by buses. When the Department of Street Railways began coach operations in 1925, the intent was to provide feeder service to the established streetcar lines, as expansion costs were prohibitive. Sadly, the program implemented to complement the city's streetcar operations led to the demise of the streetcar as the principal mode of transportation in the Motor City.
Street and Electric Railways
Street and Electric Railways, 1902
Author: United States. Census Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Detroit's Street Railways: City lines, 1922-1956
Author: Jack E. Schramm
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Observations on Street Railways, Addressed to the Right Hon. Milner Gibson, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, London
Author: George Francis Train
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Report of the Street Railway Commissioners, to the General Court
Author: Massachusetts. Street Railway Commissioners
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Annual Report [including Railroad and Street Railway Returns] of the Board of Railroad Commissioners
Author: Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
American Street Railways
Author: Augustine W. Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description