Trains And Trolleys Railroads And Streetcars In St Louis

Author : Molly Butterworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1681062895

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Trains and Trolleys: Railroads and Streetcars in St. Louis by Molly Butterworth Pdf

The battle between St. Louis and Chicago to be the Midwest's leading city long predates the one between the Cardinals and the Cubs. Chicago won the fight to be considered part of the nation's first transcontinental railroad, and the Gateway City's delay in building a railroad bridge over the Mississippi River kept St. Louis in second place railroad service in the Midwest. But while Chicago had the Pullman Car Company, St. Louis featured more of the most important manufacturers in the rail industry, including American Car & Foundry and the St. Louis Car Company. St. Louis was dotted with historic rail structures ranging from its grand Union Station to depots built just after the Civil War, and a number of its suburbs were born of rail lines serving the area, with streets that still wear the names of the railroads they paralleled. In Trains and Trolleys of St. Louis, you have a ticket to hop aboard and travel across nearly two centuries through what the city built, operated, and preserved for the railroad. Hear the stories of the great-grandfathers who worked the rails, or take a walk down memory lane and a streetcar ride down to Gaslight Square. Local author and locomotive enthusiast Molly Butterworth carefully catalogues the history and significance of St. Louis' connection to its railroad days. Through the years, many of the railroad stations and streetcar stops have gone by the wayside, but their stories have lived on. Read about the ones you can still go enjoy, included in the many wonderful secrets shared among the pages of Trains and Trolleys of St. Louis.

Author : Stephen L. Meyers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0738545260

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Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island by Stephen L. Meyers Pdf

An amazing assortment of electric trolley lines once traversed the towns and villages of Queens and Long Island. With names like Jamaica Central, Northport Traction, Ocean Electric, and the Steinway lines, some meandered across meadows and hills while others sped over elevated tracks. There was even one line that had streetcars but no tracks. In the end, all of them helped stitch the countryside into the concentrated suburban area it is today--with barely a trace of the trolleys left anywhere.

Author : Kenneth Schramm
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0738540277

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Detroit's Street Railways by Kenneth Schramm Pdf

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.

Author : Peter A. Hansen,Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes,Don L. Hofsommer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780253062376

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Crossroads of a Continent by Peter A. Hansen,Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes,Don L. Hofsommer Pdf

Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921 tells the story of the state's railroads and their vital role in American history. Missouri and St. Louis, its largest city, are strategically located within the American Heartland. On July 4, 1851, when the Pacific Railroad of Missouri began construction in St. Louis, the city took its first step to becoming a major hub for railroads. By the 1920s, the state was crisscrossed with railways reaching toward all points of the compass. Authors Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes explore the history of Missouri railroads through personal, absorbing tales of the cutthroat competition between cities and between railroads that meant the difference between prosperity and obscurity, the ambitions and dreams of visionaries Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell, and the country's excitement over the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color images of historical railway ephemera, Crossroads of a Continent is an engaging history of key American railroads and of Missouri's critical contribution to the American story.

Author : Brian Doucet,Michael Doucet
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781487510190

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Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto by Brian Doucet,Michael Doucet Pdf

When looking at old pictures of Toronto, it is clear that the city’s urban, economic, and social geography has changed dramatically over the generations. Historic photos of Toronto’s streetcar network offer a unique opportunity to examine how the city has been transformed from a provincial, industrial city into one of North America’s largest and most diverse regions. Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto studies the city’s urban transformations through an analysis of photographs taken by streetcar enthusiasts, beginning in the 1960s. These photographers did not intend to record the urban form, function, or social geographies of Toronto; they were "accidental archivists" whose main goal was to photograph the streetcars themselves. But today, their images render visible the ordinary, day-to-day life in the city in a way that no others did. These historic photographs show a Toronto before gentrification, globalization, and deindustrialization. Each image has been re-photographed to provide fresh insights into a city that is in a constant state of flux. With gorgeous illustrations, this unique book offers an understanding of how Toronto has changed, and the reasons behind these urban shifts. The visual exploration of historic and contemporary images from different parts of the city helps to explain how the major forces shaping the city affect its form, functions, neighbourhoods, and public spaces.

Author : Tom Eyssell,Molly Butterworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 168106409X

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They Will Run: the Golden Age of the Automobile in St. Louis, 2nd Edition by Tom Eyssell,Molly Butterworth Pdf

Drive down the streets of St. Louis City, and you can almost feel the tugs of what was dreamed within a region that hung many of its hopes on building the great American automobile."We will be bigger than Detroit when it comes to building automobiles." Who could dispute that widely-held belief when the best automotive engineering, the first American sports car, vehicles that helped win wars, and inventions that redefined automobiles were born here in the Gateway City? They Will Run provides a new interpretation of the automotive history that pops up around every corner in St. Louis. From some of the wisest and most committed early independent builders to assembly plants for each of the Big Three, the Gateway City provided not only support for early European emigrant travelers in the 18th and 19th centuries but also for the road travelers of the 20th century and beyond.Open these pages to experience the road behind the wheel of a vehicle built here in St. Louis. Meet the men who took a pencil to paper or a wheel to the road or a hot air balloon to the skies and impacted the great American automobile. Learn about or be reminded of the ways St. Louis was and is at the center of the United States beyond simple geography.With this second edition, local authors and car enthusiasts Tom Eyssell and Molly Butterworth take you through the pages of history and further down that road with sites and maps to open the gates to a new way of experiencing firsthand the history of the automobile in St. Louis.

Author : Robert Wendell Jackson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bridges
ISBN : 0252026802

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Rails Across the Mississippi by Robert Wendell Jackson Pdf

"A tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion, Rails across the Mississippi is the first book-length history since 1881 to document the planning, financing, and construction of the first bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, a national engineering landmark completed in 1874 that is now known as the Eads Bridge. Robert W. Jackson takes a fresh look at this monumental project, dispersing the myths and filling in the gaps left by earlier scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Allen Meyers,Joel Spivak
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0738512265

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Philadelphia Trolleys by Allen Meyers,Joel Spivak Pdf

Streetcar service arrived in Philadelphia in the 1850s, shortly after the consolidation of the city. After the Civil War, the horse-drawn omnibus gave way to a comprehensive network of streetcar lines with some routes measuring nineteen miles in length. By 1915, the electrification of the streetcar increased the number of routes in Philadelphia to a total of eighty-six. During the trolley's heyday, the city provided a vast test track for such companies as J.G. Brill, Kimball and Gorton Car Manufacturers, and the Budd Wheel Company. The Wharton Railroad Switch Company revolutionized the manufacture of switches and tracks. Of the lines that once operated in Philadelphia, five are still running today. Philadelphia Trolleys contains a variety of rare images, including a postcard of the Point Breeze Amusement Park, photographs of motormen's uniform badges and buttons, architectural drawings, early stock certificates, and a photograph of the Toonerville Trolley used in the silent movies produced by Lubin Studios in the 1920s.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electrical engineering
ISBN : PRNC:32101048867061

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Electrical Engineer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jason Mauch
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781604132229

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Industrialism by Jason Mauch Pdf

Encyclopedic entries cover the prominent people and events of the period of dramatic industrial growth in the United States.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015058309447

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National Railway Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Railroads
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020576893

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Pacific Rail News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738557617

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Brooklyn Streetcars by Anonim Pdf

In the summer of 1854, the Brooklyn City Railroad opened four separate streetcar lines. The lines were introduced here several years before they were brought to larger cities, such as Baltimore, Boston, and Philadelphia, demonstrating the city's modernization and ingenuity. From its first introduction, Brooklyn had one of the nation's largest urban transit systems. With the advent of streetcars, the population in Brooklyn grew from about 139,000 to over 2.5 million by the time streetcars were retired. The street railway blended mobility with innovation, prompting one-third of New York City's population to call Brooklyn home.

Author : Andrew D. Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Local transit
ISBN : 0964727935

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Streets and Streetcars of St. Louis by Andrew D. Young Pdf

Author : Connecticut Motor Coach Museum
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-28
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781439631898

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New London County Trolleys by Connecticut Motor Coach Museum Pdf

Railroads were instrumental to the growth of industry in America. Streetcar systems branched off from railroad lines, extending transportation to urban and rural areas not otherwise accessible. The expansion of the trolley system in New London County also revitalized industry in the area. By the 1860s, the number of farms in Connecticut had begun to decline, and the need for reliable, reasonable transportation to towns and cities increased. The Norwich Horse Railroad, incorporated in 1864, was followed by various other trolley companies, including the Norwich Street Railway Company, the New London Horse Railroad, the New London Street Railway, and the Montville Horse Railway. Trolley transportation was finally electrified in 1889, fueling the expansion of trolley networks in Norwich and New London. The increase in trolley service allowed the textile industry to grow by expanding access to a sufficient workforce. The system also worked in reverse, enabling city dwellers to escape to the country for outings.