Detroit's Street Railways: City lines, 1922-1956 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Detroit's Street Railways: City lines, 1922-1956 write by Jack E. Schramm. This book was released on 1978. Detroit's Street Railways: City lines, 1922-1956 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Detroit's Street Railways: City lines, 1863-1922
Detroit's Street Railways: City lines, 1863-1922 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Detroit's Street Railways: City lines, 1863-1922 write by Jack E. Schramm. This book was released on 1978. Detroit's Street Railways: City lines, 1863-1922 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Tiger Stadium
Tiger Stadium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tiger Stadium write by Michael Betzold,. This book was released on 2018-04-13. Tiger Stadium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Built in 1912, Detroit's Tiger Stadium provided unmatched access for generations of baseball fans. Based on a classic grandstand design, its development through the 20th century reflected the booming industrial city around it. Emphasizing utility over adornment and offering more fans affordable seats near the field than any other venue in sports, it was in every sense a working-class ballpark that made the game the central focus. Drawing on the perspectives of historians, architects, fans and players, the authors describe how Tiger Stadium grew and adapted and then, despite the efforts of fans, was abandoned and destroyed. It is a story of corporate welfare, politics and indifference to history pitted against an enduring love of place. Chronological diagrams illustrate the evolution of the playing field.
Detroit's Street Railways
Detroit's Street Railways - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Detroit's Street Railways write by Kenneth Schramm. This book was released on 2006. Detroit's Street Railways available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Michigan Railroads & Railroad Companies
Michigan Railroads & Railroad Companies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Michigan Railroads & Railroad Companies write by Graydon M. Meints. This book was released on 1993-01-31. Michigan Railroads & Railroad Companies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Michigan Railroads and Railroad Companies is an invaluable reference manual for everyone interested in regional transportation history, the history of railroading, and Michigan history in general. It contains complete, cross-referenced listings for every company formed to operate a railroad in the state of Michigan. In addition to the comprehensive entries for major lines, Graydon Meints has included details about the many small, common-carrier steam and electric companies, logging roads, and numerous other primitive and contemporary rail systems. This encyclopedic reference guide also contains information on the so-called "paper railroads," companies that were projected but which never laid a foot of track. Michigan Railroads is divided into three parts. One includes alphabetical entries for the actual and intended railroad companies themselves, the date and purpose for their organization, and a brief history from their origins to their dispositions. Included in this portion of the work are a number of railroad "family trees" showing the corporate antecedents of the largest of the rail lines operating in the state today. Another contains a chronology of significant corporate events; it works as a useful finding aid for accessing source data contained in the first section. A third contains a statewide county-by-county listing of railroads, both paper and real.
