Isle of Portland 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 Isle of Portland Railways write by B. L. Jackson. This book was released on 2000. Isle of Portland Railways available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Portland's Interurban Railway
Portland's Interurban Railway - 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 Portland's Interurban Railway write by Richard Martin Thompson. This book was released on 2012. Portland's Interurban Railway available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Commercial and Financial Chronicle Bankers Gazette, Commercial Times, Railway Monitor and Insurance Journal
Commercial and Financial Chronicle Bankers Gazette, Commercial Times, Railway Monitor and Insurance Journal - 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 Commercial and Financial Chronicle Bankers Gazette, Commercial Times, Railway Monitor and Insurance Journal write by . This book was released on 1912. Commercial and Financial Chronicle Bankers Gazette, Commercial Times, Railway Monitor and Insurance Journal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Commercial and Financial Chronicle
The Commercial and Financial Chronicle - 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 The Commercial and Financial Chronicle write by . This book was released on 1912. The Commercial and Financial Chronicle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Electric Interurban Railways in America
The Electric Interurban Railways in America - 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 The Electric Interurban Railways in America write by George Woodman Hilton. This book was released on 1964. The Electric Interurban Railways in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
