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Metropolitan railways : rapid transit in America / William D. Middleton.
Author
Middleton, William D., 1928-2011
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2003.
Description
viii, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HE4500 .M53 2003
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Subject(s)
Local transit
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North America
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History
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Railroads, Local and light
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North America
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History
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Street-railroads
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North America
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History
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Subways
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North America
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History
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Series
Railroads past and present
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Summary note
"Metropolitan Railways is a large-scale, extensively illustrated volume that portrays the growth and development of the urban rail transit systems in North America. From such impractical early schemes as a proposed steam-powered "arcade railway" under New York's Broadway and Alfred Ely Beach's pneumatic subway, the book traces the development of rail transit technology through today's sophisticated systems that employ computer-era technology to attain fully automatic train operation."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-267) and index.
Contents
The quest for rapid transit
The era of the elevated
Rapid transit goes underground
Rapid transit at midcentury : new systems and a new era
New metro technologies
Light rail transit : new life for an old technology
Conveyances for the multitudes : the cars we rode
A metropolitan railways renaissance.
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ISBN
0253341795 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780253341792 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2002006588
OCLC
49681301
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