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Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses

Author : Gary Helton
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738553696
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses written by Gary Helton and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1850s, Baltimore's 170,000 residents had few options when it came to getting around town. Before the decade's end, however, the omnibus--an urban version of the stagecoach--emerged as Baltimore's first mass-transit vehicle. Horsecars followed, then cable cars, and ultimately electrically powered streetcars. Recognizing the need for cohesion, the city's myriad transit providers merged into a single operator. United Railways and Electric Company, incorporated in 1899, faced the unenviable task of integrating routes being served by inadequate, incompatible, and often obsolete equipment. Over the next seven decades, privately run mass transit in Baltimore survived bankruptcy, a name change, two world wars, the proliferation of private automobiles, a takeover by out-of-town interests, and a plethora of new vehicles. Arguably a unified system of privately operated mass transit was no closer to being a reality in 1970, when it reached the end of the line and was taken over by the state.

Baltimore Streetcars

Author : Herbert H. Harwood
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801871900
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Baltimore Streetcars written by Herbert H. Harwood and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-09-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert H. Harwood here gives us a glorious picture of Baltimore in the heyday of the streetcar, combining the story of lines and equipment with a nostalgic view of Baltimore when so many of her people relied on street railways. From the late 1800s through World War II, streetcars transported Baltimore's population to and from work, play, and just about everything else. Bankers and clerks, factory workers and managers, domestics, schoolchildren, shoppers, all rode side-by-side on the streetcars regardless of economic status, level of education, or ethnic background. In a city where residences and schools were segregated, streetcar passengers sat wherever they could. In addition to being a truly democratic institution, streetcars considerably influenced Baltimore's physical growth, enabling families to live farther than ever before from workplaces and thus encouraging early suburbs. Despite rising competition from the private automobile, streetcars remained the mainstay of Baltimore's public transportation system until after World War II, when gas rationing ended and family cars multiplied. Environmentally friendly and for the most part comfortable and reliable, streetcars also had their peculiar charm. Today some people in Baltimore miss them.

Baltimore Streetcar Memories

Author : Kenneth C. Springirth
Publisher : America Through Time
ISBN 13 : 9781634990349
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Baltimore Streetcar Memories written by Kenneth C. Springirth and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baltimore was the first United States city to begin regularly scheduled electric railway service in 1885. However, because of technical problems the line had to go back to horse car operation. After Frank J. Sprague developed an electric streetcar powered by an overhead wire for Richmond, Virginia; Baltimore adopted the new system and in 1893 opened the first electric line in the United States to operate on an elevated structure. By 1899, Baltimore streetcar lines, with their unique 5 foot 4.5 inch track gauge, were unified by the United Railways and Electric Company which purchased 885 semi-convertible cars with windows that could be raised up for summer operation and lowered for winter operation. Baltimore Transit Company was the third United States system to introduce modern Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) cars and at its peak operated the eighth largest fleet of these cars. A combination of factors including a ridership decline and making many downtown streets one way contributed to conversion to an all bus system. Baltimore Streetcar Memories is a photographic essay of history of the Baltimore, Maryland streetcar system up to its closure in 1963 and the return of a modern streetcar/light rail system 29 years later in 1992.

The History of Baltimore's Streetcars

Author : Michael R. Farrell
Publisher : Greenberg Books
ISBN 13 : 9780897782838
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book The History of Baltimore's Streetcars written by Michael R. Farrell and published by Greenberg Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Baltimore's streetcars from 1859 to 1992.

Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses

Author : Gary Helton
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531633813
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses written by Gary Helton and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1850s, Baltimore's 170,000 residents had few options when it came to getting around town. Before the decade's end, however, the omnibus--an urban version of the stagecoach--emerged as Baltimore's first mass-transit vehicle. Horsecars followed, then cable cars, and ultimately electrically powered streetcars. Recognizing the need for cohesion, the city's myriad transit providers merged into a single operator. United Railways and Electric Company, incorporated in 1899, faced the unenviable task of integrating routes being served by inadequate, incompatible, and often obsolete equipment. Over the next seven decades, privately run mass transit in Baltimore survived bankruptcy, a name change, two world wars, the proliferation of private automobiles, a takeover by out-of-town interests, and a plethora of new vehicles. Arguably a unified system of privately operated mass transit was no closer to being a reality in 1970, when it reached the end of the line and was taken over by the state.

Baltimore Streetcars Nineteen Hundred Five to Nineteen Sixty-Three

Author : Bernard J. Sachs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780960963805
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Baltimore Streetcars Nineteen Hundred Five to Nineteen Sixty-Three written by Bernard J. Sachs and published by . This book was released on 1982-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Insiders' Guide® to Baltimore

Author : Judy Colbert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762763353
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Insiders' Guide® to Baltimore written by Judy Colbert and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insiders' Guide to Baltimore is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to the Maryland's largest city. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Baltimore and its surrounding environs.

Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia

Author : T. Vicino
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230612725
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia written by T. Vicino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as the nation witnessed the widespread decay of urban centers, there is a mounting suburban crisis in first-tier suburbs - the early suburbs to develop in metropolitan America. These places, once the bastion of a large middle class, have matured and experienced three decades of social and economic decline. In the first comprehensive analysis of suburban decline for an entire region, Vicino uses Baltimore as an illustrative case to chronicle how first-tier suburbs experienced widespread decline while outer suburbs flourished since the 1970s. At the brink of the twenty-first century, Vicino illustrates how the processes of deindustrialization, racial diversity, and class segregation have shaped the evolution of suburban decline.

The Electric Interurban Railways in America

Author : George Woodman Hilton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804740142
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Electric Interurban Railways in America written by George Woodman Hilton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Baltimore and Its Streetcars

Author : Herbert H. Harwood
Publisher : Quaestor2000 Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780915276448
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book Baltimore and Its Streetcars written by Herbert H. Harwood and published by Quaestor2000 Limited. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Streetcars of New Orleans

Author : Elbridge Harper Charlton
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455612598
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book The Streetcars of New Orleans written by Elbridge Harper Charlton and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensively illustrated, 240-page volume documents the long and colorful history of streetcar transportation in the city of New Orleans. This reprint of a 1965 volume, written by the two leading authorities on the subject, represents the complete work on the subject of New Orleans traction and urban railways. Featured are sections on early city transportation, and the golden era of electric traction (1893-1926), along with technical aspects, trackage, and mileage routes. A series of maps pinpoints, for traction enthusiasts, the locations of tracks no longer extant and provides information on companies that once operated the network of rails. Also included is a special section on the types of cars that were used throughout the traction era. Authors Hennick and Charlton also have collaborated on a companion volume to this work, Street Railways of Louisiana , also published by Pelican.

Tourist Trains Guidebook

Author :
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
ISBN 13 : 0871162733
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Tourist Trains Guidebook written by and published by Kalmbach Publishing, Co.. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides reviews and listings for a variety of railroad museums in the United States and Canada.

Cool Off and Ride!

Author : Claudia Friddell
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 163592684X
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Cool Off and Ride! written by Claudia Friddell and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical picture book about 1930s Baltimore residents beating the heat the old-fashioned way—by riding a trolley!— is filled with fascinating information on public transit and staying cool before the advent of air conditioning. Everyone in Baltimore is hot and sticky, from little Hazel playing on the slide to the grandma knitting on the porch. So when evening comes, they all jump at the chance for a little "cool off and ride." The whole neighborhood–from the Taylor twins to Grandpa, and even the dog!—piles onto a breezy homemade roller coaster, a city trolley! In this charming, rhythmic romp, Claudia Friddell and Jenn Harney take us back to a time before air conditioning when you had to cool off any way you could. And the Cool Off and Ride Program was certainly a popular way! More than 8,000 people rode the trolleys every evening in the summer. Taking the streetcar brought the whole neighborhood together, and everyone’s fares helped keep the Baltimore streetcars running. This STEAM title is a terrific read-aloud that will also educate kids about weather and the history of transit in the United States.

The Baltimore Rowhouse

Author : Charles Belfoure
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1568989563
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book The Baltimore Rowhouse written by Charles Belfoure and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other American city is so defined by an indigenous architectural style as Baltimore is by the rowhouse, whose brick facades march up and down the gentle hills of the city. Why did the rowhouse thrive in Baltimore? How did it escape destruction here, unlike in many other historic American cities? What were the forces that led to the citywide renovation of Baltimore's rowhouses? The Baltimore Rowhouse tells the fascinating 200-year story of this building type. It chronicles the evolution of the rowhouse from its origins as speculative housing for immigrants, through its reclamation and renovation by young urban pioneers thanks to local government sponsorship, to its current occupation by a new cadre of wealthy professionals.

Fun with the Family Maryland

Author : Karen Nitkin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762756195
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Fun with the Family Maryland written by Karen Nitkin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the round-the-clock hokeyness of Ocean City to the bucolic charms of Deep Creek Lake, the Old Line State packs in hundreds of kids activities and attractions in its compact 10,460 square miles. And this book describes practically all of them—including mountains, hiking trails, beaches, amusement parks, cities, zoos and aquariums, parks, children's museums, farms, festivals, and a wealth of history.

Moon Baltimore

Author : Jennifer Walker
Publisher : Moon Travel
ISBN 13 : 1612387969
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Moon Baltimore written by Jennifer Walker and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quirky, historic, and sophisticated: get to know all sides of Charm City with Moon Baltimore. Explore the City: Navigate by neighborhood or by activity with color-coded maps See the Sites: Visit the birthplace of the Star-Spangled Banner, seek out Edgar Allan Poe's historic gravestone, or take the whole family to the National Aquarium. Have a picnic at Baltimore's Washington Monument, shop the locally owned boutiques of "The Avenue," or get lost in the stacks at the beautiful George Peabody Library. Marvel at the works of Warhol and Pollack at the Baltimore Museum of Art or trek to the top of Federal Hill for some sweeping harbor views Get a Taste of the City: Crack open a dozen steamed crabs, feast on fried crab cakes, or opt for soft-shell when it's in season. Indulge in a huge breakfast with a Baltimore twist, sample top-notch tapas in a former machine shop, or peruse the Farmer's Market & Bazaar for fresh fish and other local specialties Bars and Nightlife: Have a pint at the centuries-old bar The Wharf Rat, enjoy everything from table tennis to a burlesque show at The Windup Space, or sneak into a top-secret speakeasy for the cocktail du jour Honest Advice from Charm City native Jennifer Walker on the best local businesses and under-the-radar hotspots Flexible, strategic itineraries including a two-day best of Baltimore and ideas for families and foodies, plus day trips to Annapolis, Frederick, and more Tips for Travelers including where to stay, how to safely bike the city, and more, plus advice for LGBTQ visitors, seniors, and families with children Maps and Tools like background information on the history and culture of Baltimore, easy-to-read maps, a section of full-color photos, and neighborhood guides from Inner Harbor to Fell's Point With Moon Baltimore's practical tips and local know-how, you can plan your trip your way. Extending your trip? Check out Moon Virginia & Maryland. Want to explore more east coast cities? Try Moon Washington D.C. or Moon Philadelphia.

Capital Streetcars

Author : John DeFerrari
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625856199
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Capital Streetcars written by John DeFerrari and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington's first streetcars trundled down Pennsylvania Avenue during the Civil War. By the end of the century, streetcar lines crisscrossed the city, expanding it into the suburbs and defining where Washingtonians lived, worked and played. One of the most beloved routes was the scenic Cabin John line to the amusement park in Glen Echo, Maryland. From the quaint early days of small horse-drawn cars to the modern "streamliners" of the twentieth century, the stories are all here. Join author John DeFerrari on a joyride through the fascinating history of streetcars in the nation's capital.