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Sacramento's Streetcars (Images of Rail) | 
 enlarge | Author: William Burg
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 541267
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0738531472
Dewey Decimal Number: 979.402
EAN: 9780738531472
ASIN: 0738531472
Publication Date: July 17, 2006
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Product Description
Until 1947, Sacramentos streetcars linked a bustling downtown district with residential neighborhoods, workplaces, and a growing series of suburbs. Starting with horse-drawn cars on Front Street, the streetcar system owned by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company expanded to include Midtown, Curtis Park, Land Park, Oak Park, and East Sacramento. But PG&E was not alone; two other companies ran streetcar routes downtown, along with suburban lines to West Sacramento, North Sacramento, Rio Linda, Elverta, Colonial Heights, and Colonial Acres. Sacramentans rode the cars to work, to school, to the state fair, and just about anywhere they wanted to go until the streetcars were replaced by buses owned by National City Lines.
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Burg's second Arcadia book as good as his first. May 30, 2008
William Burg, Sacramento's Streetcars (Arcadia, 2006)
I've recently become quite enamored of Arcadia's series of Images of [fill in the blank] books of old photographs, and finding out that my old acquaintance William Burg (if you're on livejournal, you know him as noisepimp) had done the text for two of them. Sacramento's Streetcars is the second, and I like it just as much as the first (Sacramento's Southside Park). This one's in the Images of Rail series, and as the informative title reveals, it focuses on the golden age of streetcars in Sacramento.
I gushed over the differences between Burg's books and the other Arcadia titles I've come across in my other review, and it would be silly to repeat myself here; graft everything I said about Burg's writing onto this review and add in a couple of streetcar references, and you have everything I'd say about this one. It's good stuff. Buy it. Doesn't matter if you live in Sacramento or not; this is great armchair-travelling material as well. ****
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