Metropolitan railways : rapid transit in America / William D. Middleton.

Author
Middleton, William D., 1928-2011 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2003.
Description
viii, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

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    Series
    Railroads past and present [More in this series]
    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.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 0253341795 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780253341792 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2002006588
    OCLC
    49681301
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