Author: Alan R. LindPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Chicago Surface Lines
Author: Alan R. LindPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
See Chicago, Use Chicago Surface Lines
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Chicago's Lost "L"s
Author: David SadowskiPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439672911
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Chicago's system of elevated railways, known locally as the "L," has run continuously since 1892 and, like the city, has never stood still. It helped neighborhoods grow, brought their increasingly diverse populations together, and gave the famous Loop its name. But today's system has changed radically over the years. Chicago's Lost "L"s tells the story of former lines such as Garfield Park, Humboldt Park, Kenwood, Stockyards, Normal Park, Westchester, and Niles Center. It was once possible to take high-speed trains on the L directly to Aurora, Elgin, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The L started out as four different companies, two starting out using steam engines instead of electricity. Eventually, all four came together via the Union Loop. The L is more than a way of getting around. Its trains are a place where people meet and interact. Some say the best way to experience the city is via the L, with its second-story view. Chicago's Lost "L"s is virtually a "secret history" of Chicago, and this is your ticket.
Report of the Chicago Traction and Subway Commission to the Honorable, the Mayor and City Council of the City of Chicago on a Unified System of Surface, Elevated, and Subway Lines
Author: Chicago (Ill.). Traction and Subway CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Report on Investigation of Traffic Conditions and Track Capacity with Respect to the Possibilities of Improved Street Railway Service and Re-routing of Cars of the Chicago Surface Lines
Author: Board of Supervising Engineers. Chicago TractionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Great American Transit Disaster
Author: Nicholas Dagen BloomPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226824403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"One of the most enduring American urban myths concerns the death of the Red Car Trolley, an extensive and equitable system in Los Angeles County that some say was weakened and then eradicated by US car manufacturers. Yet as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows, an array of larger yet less tangible forces together interacted to practically murder public transportation of all kinds in cities nationwide. Most centrally, public transit collapsed because essentially we wanted it to-no conspiracy necessary. Detailing the histories of transportation in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, and San Francisco, Bloom seeks to set all of our transit myths to rest for the sake not only of accuracy but in order to enrich our conversations about public transportation funding today"--
From Small Town to Downtown
Author: Lawrence A. BroughPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253343697
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Jewett Car Company was born in the heyday of the electric railway boom in the 1890s. The company gained an excellent reputation for its elegant, well-built wooden cars for street railway companies, interurban lines, and rapid transit service. Cities large and small used Jewett cars, including New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Many Jewett cars found their way to Indiana and many of the interurban lines employed the graceful, arch-windowed wood interurban that Jewett was famous for.Automobile competition and the problems of competing with much larger car builders, such as J.G. Brill and the St. Louis Car Company, signaled the beginning of the end. The company was offered the opportunity to produce munitions for World War I, but refused. The reason: the major source of finance for Jewett was a German nationalist banker from Wheeling, West Virginia, who refused to have the company do anything to harm Germany. As a direct result of that action, the Jewett Car Company failed.
In Re Chicago Railways Company
Author: Seeing Greater Chicago
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
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