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Pittsburgh Streamlined Trolleys (PA) (Images of Rail) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kenneth C. Springirth
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 252324
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 073854941X
Dewey Decimal Number: 388.460974886
EAN: 9780738549415
ASIN: 073854941X
Publication Date: November 30, 2006
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Product Description
Pittsburgh Streamlined Trolleys covers the history of the trolley car system that once had the third largest fleet of Presidents' Conference Committee trolley cars in North America. Pittsburgh Railways Company was very innovative and constantly made design improvements in its trolley cars. This led to increased ridership, as these streamlined trolleys were quiet, fast, and had comfortable seating. With the increased use of automobiles, ridership declined. After the Port Authority of Allegheny County took over Pittsburgh Railways, most of the trolley routes were abandoned. However, a number of trolleys were refurbished with paint schemes that included psychedelic commercial advertising and community messages. The last runs of these trolleys occurred in 1999, and new light rail vehicles are now in service.
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 Pittsburgh Streamlined Trolleys March 30, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Excellent book for those who grew up in Pittsburgh riding trolleys.
Pictures are very good with maps etc.
 Nice to finally see a book on Pittsburgh trolleys March 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I grew up in Pittsburgh - was born a bit too late to ride the interurbans but got to ride many of the lines in this book. As a teenager I got up at 5AM on Sundays and rode an an all-day pass for a couple of dollars. Lived there long enough to see the destruction of the trolley lines by PAT (Port Authroity Transit). Rode many a last-day-of-operation runs. Many succumbed to the need to re-pave existing streets but the infatuatiion with buses was just too great. Day of sorrow was when the trolleys could no longer take me from downtown to University of Pittsburgh.
Now for the review. The book has a wealth of pictures but they jump all over the place and are sort of grouped by time of abandonment rather than geographical area. Mr Springirth clearly started visiting Pittsburgh in the late 50's or early 60's so some Northside routes and virtually all West End routes are missing from the book as these routes were abandoned prior to his visits. Finally, the text is rather limited and would be better served by tables rather than run-on text of last date of service and last opeating car. The hand-drawn maps are good but if the map published about 1960 by the Western Pennsylvaina Trolley Museum (formerly Arden Trolley Museum) is still in print it's a full map on a single fold-out sheet.
Despite the shortcomings, reading this was an enjoyable trip down memory lane.
Great diverse transit system February 2, 2007
Because of the many hilly streets, bridges and tunnels, the Pittsburgh Streetcars traversed, no two lines of this large system were the same.
Good little book January 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good book on the subject with lots of black & white photos. If the book was in a larger format with some color photos, it would have been excellent.
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