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The electric interurban railways in America:
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One of the most colorful yet neglected eras in American transportation historyis re-created in this definitive history of the electric interurbans. Builtwith the idea of attracting short-distance passenger traffic and lightfreight, the interurbans were largely constructed in the early 1900s. The riseof the automobile and motor transport caused the industry to decline afterWorld War I, and the depression virtually annihilated the industry by themiddle 1930s.Part I describes interurban construction, technology, passengerand freight traffic, financial history, and final decline and abandonment.Part II presents individual histories (with route maps) of the more than 300companies of the interurban industry.Reviews"A first-rate work of such detailand discernment that it might well serve as a model for all corporatebiographies. . . . A wonderfully capable job of distillation."Trains"Feweconomic, social, and business historians can afford to miss this definitivestudy."Mississippi Valley Historical Review"All seekers after nostalgia willbe interested in this encyclopedic volume on the days when the clang, clang ofthe trolley was the most exciting travel sound the suburbs knew."Harper'sMagazine"A fascinating and instructive chapter in the history of Americantransportation."Journal of Economic History"The hint that behind the grandfacade of scholarship lies an expanse of boyish enthusiasm is strengthened bya lovingly amassed and beautifully reproduced collection of 37photographs."The Nation Read more