Horse Trails to Regional Rails : The Story of Public Transit in Greater Cleveland

Author: James A. Toman, Blaine S. Hays
Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr; ISBN: 0873385470
Description: Hardcover - 376 pages (September 1996)
ISBN: 0873385470

With its hundreds of historical photographs, Horse Trails To Regional Rails tells the story of two centuries of public transportation in Greater Cleveland as it developed from a trading post on Lake Erie to an industrial giant of the American heartland. A growing urban center, transportation policies and practices both promoted and reflected the dynamics of change from the opening of the Ohio and Erie Canal to the opening of the new waterfront rapid transit. The scope of Horse Trails To Regional Rails is comprehensive (canal, river, lake, and air transport) with a focus is on Cleveland's streetcars, interurbans, trackless trolleys, buses, and rapid transit trains.

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