Author: Cheri Ryan
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738580197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Operating for 29 years, the Seattle-Everett Interurban Trolley traveled over 29 miles of rail carrying passengers and freight to nearly 30 stops along its line. In the first decade of the 1900s, the Boston electrical engineering firm of Stone and Webster had designs of building an interurban electric railway system that would eventually connect Olympia, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia. To start the Seattle north link, they purchased the existing Seattle-Everett Interurban Railway Company from Fred E. Sander in 1908. On the early morning of April 30, 1910, the Seattle-Everett Interurban Trolley made its inaugural run, starting in Everett. On February 20, 1939, the trolley left Everett for its last run.
Seattle-Everett Interurban Railway
Author: Cheri Ryan
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738580197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Operating for 29 years, the Seattle-Everett Interurban Trolley traveled over 29 miles of rail carrying passengers and freight to nearly 30 stops along its line. In the first decade of the 1900s, the Boston electrical engineering firm of Stone and Webster had designs of building an interurban electric railway system that would eventually connect Olympia, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia. To start the Seattle north link, they purchased the existing Seattle-Everett Interurban Railway Company from Fred E. Sander in 1908. On the early morning of April 30, 1910, the Seattle-Everett Interurban Trolley made its inaugural run, starting in Everett. On February 20, 1939, the trolley left Everett for its last run.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738580197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Operating for 29 years, the Seattle-Everett Interurban Trolley traveled over 29 miles of rail carrying passengers and freight to nearly 30 stops along its line. In the first decade of the 1900s, the Boston electrical engineering firm of Stone and Webster had designs of building an interurban electric railway system that would eventually connect Olympia, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia. To start the Seattle north link, they purchased the existing Seattle-Everett Interurban Railway Company from Fred E. Sander in 1908. On the early morning of April 30, 1910, the Seattle-Everett Interurban Trolley made its inaugural run, starting in Everett. On February 20, 1939, the trolley left Everett for its last run.
The Electric Interurban Railways in America
Author: George Woodman Hilton
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804740142
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
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
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804740142
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
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
Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 2604
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 2604
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McGraw Electric Railway Manual
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Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A manual of the securities, traffic statistics, earnings, officers, directors, and equipment of street and interurban railways of the United States, Canada, Cuba and West Indies.
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Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A manual of the securities, traffic statistics, earnings, officers, directors, and equipment of street and interurban railways of the United States, Canada, Cuba and West Indies.
Electric Railway Journal
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Languages : en
Pages : 1214
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Languages : en
Pages : 1214
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Stone & Webster Public Service Journal
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Stone & Webster Journal
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Category : Electric engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category : Electric engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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The Street Railway Journal
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Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1352
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Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1352
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Report of the Secretary of State ...
Author: Washington (State). Office of the Secretary of State
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Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Report
Author: Washington (State). Office of the Secretary of State
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Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Publisher:
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Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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