Streetcars of America
The handsome multicolored streetcar is a nostalgic icon of the some of the most romantic and heritage-rich locales in America, including San Francisco, New Orleans and Chicago, immortalised on stage and screen in classics including 'Meet Me In St Louis' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. Streetcars of America chronicles these vehicles from the earliest animal-drawn carriages to the height of their popularity in the 1920s, when there were more than 1,200 tram railways, to the turning of the tide in the mid-twentieth century when congestion and attacks from the automobile industry eventually pushed streetcars from most urban landscapes. But it als…
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Weitere Autoren: Gruber, John
- ISBN: 978-0-7478-1525-9
- EAN: 9780747815259
- Produktnummer: 20166769
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 64 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'510 KB
- Abbildungen: 30 b/w; 40 col
Über den Autor
Brian Solomon is the author of more than 50 books on railroads. He was editor of Pacific RailNews and has contributed to numerous specialist magazines.John Gruber is a renowned railroad photographer and is President of the Center for Railroad Photography & Art, Madison, Wisconsin.
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