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
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
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780804740142 |
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Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
Publication date: | 01/01/2000 |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 472 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |