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Cleveland and It's Streetcars | 
 enlarge | Authors: James R. Spangler, James A. Toman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1193018
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0738539678
Dewey Decimal Number: 977.132
EAN: 9780738539676
ASIN: 0738539678
Publication Date: October 3, 2005
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Product Description
Cleveland and Its Streetcars takes the reader back to when railway cars dominated the local street scene. The book focuses on the era of 19101954, from the time that Cleveland Railway Company took over operation of the consolidated streetcar lines to the day that the last streetcar rumbled over the citys streets. Clevelands trailer trains, articulated cars, and its Peter Witt car model were widely admired by the nation, and the streetcar reigned supreme through the end of World War II. In 1942, the Cleveland Transit System (CTS) took over the streetcar lines, and eager to "modernize" its fleet, it decided to replace the streetcars with buses, trackless trolleys, and a crosstown rapid transit line. After the end of the war, in May 1945, the first post-war conversion took place. Then the pace of replacing the streetcars with rubber-tired vehicles quickened. By 1954, the task was complete. This book, with over 200 photographs, documents this changing Cleveland scenewhen a wonderful era in transportation flourished and then, sadly, disappeared.
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Great book, with many good pictures January 2, 2008
I bought this book for my father, who grew up riding the Cleveland streetcars. He enjoyed the many pictures, and said the book did a good job of depicting all of the different lines. It brought back a lot of good memories for him.
Cleveland and it's streetcars July 20, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found the book excellent with good pictures and a condensed history, but most accurate. I lived in Cleveland during those years and remember much of the information first hand.
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