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Manhattan's Lost Streetcars (NY) (Images of Rail) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephen L. Meyers
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 888202
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0738538841
Dewey Decimal Number: 974.702
EAN: 9780738538846
ASIN: 0738538841
Publication Date: October 5, 2005
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By the first quarter of the 20th century, Manhattan had well over 400 miles of streetcar trackage, an investment of several million dollars. Less than 50 years later, the rail system had completely vanished. Manhattans Lost Streetcars chronicles the finance, political pressures, and advancing technology behind Gothams streetcar networks from 1890 to 1935. The story ends with the dismantling of the system. Manhattans Lost Streetcars recalls a bygone era when public rail transportation was aboveground and New Yorkers rode the Metropolitan Street Railway, the Green Lines, the Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line, and the Brooklyn & North River line, among others. It features images of the independent rail companies and the individual lines that made up a vast public transportation network in Manhattan.
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A very interesting book. January 31, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've often read about the Third Avenue Railway System but very little about the others. That is what this book covers and it was very interesting. Lots of good photos, too. The book, like the others of this series, is of a somewhat smaller format than typical for this type of book.
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