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Author : Gary Helton
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738553696
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses written by Gary Helton and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1850s, Baltimore's 170,000 residents had few options when it came to getting around town. Before the decade's end, however, the omnibus--an urban version of the stagecoach--emerged as Baltimore's first mass-transit vehicle. Horsecars followed, then cable cars, and ultimately electrically powered streetcars. Recognizing the need for cohesion, the city's myriad transit providers merged into a single operator. United Railways and Electric Company, incorporated in 1899, faced the unenviable task of integrating routes being served by inadequate, incompatible, and often obsolete equipment. Over the next seven decades, privately run mass transit in Baltimore survived bankruptcy, a name change, two world wars, the proliferation of private automobiles, a takeover by out-of-town interests, and a plethora of new vehicles. Arguably a unified system of privately operated mass transit was no closer to being a reality in 1970, when it reached the end of the line and was taken over by the state.

Author : Gary Helton
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531633813
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses written by Gary Helton and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1850s, Baltimore's 170,000 residents had few options when it came to getting around town. Before the decade's end, however, the omnibus--an urban version of the stagecoach--emerged as Baltimore's first mass-transit vehicle. Horsecars followed, then cable cars, and ultimately electrically powered streetcars. Recognizing the need for cohesion, the city's myriad transit providers merged into a single operator. United Railways and Electric Company, incorporated in 1899, faced the unenviable task of integrating routes being served by inadequate, incompatible, and often obsolete equipment. Over the next seven decades, privately run mass transit in Baltimore survived bankruptcy, a name change, two world wars, the proliferation of private automobiles, a takeover by out-of-town interests, and a plethora of new vehicles. Arguably a unified system of privately operated mass transit was no closer to being a reality in 1970, when it reached the end of the line and was taken over by the state.

Author : Herbert H. Harwood
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801871900
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baltimore Streetcars written by Herbert H. Harwood and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-09-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert H. Harwood here gives us a glorious picture of Baltimore in the heyday of the streetcar, combining the story of lines and equipment with a nostalgic view of Baltimore when so many of her people relied on street railways. From the late 1800s through World War II, streetcars transported Baltimore's population to and from work, play, and just about everything else. Bankers and clerks, factory workers and managers, domestics, schoolchildren, shoppers, all rode side-by-side on the streetcars regardless of economic status, level of education, or ethnic background. In a city where residences and schools were segregated, streetcar passengers sat wherever they could. In addition to being a truly democratic institution, streetcars considerably influenced Baltimore's physical growth, enabling families to live farther than ever before from workplaces and thus encouraging early suburbs. Despite rising competition from the private automobile, streetcars remained the mainstay of Baltimore's public transportation system until after World War II, when gas rationing ended and family cars multiplied. Environmentally friendly and for the most part comfortable and reliable, streetcars also had their peculiar charm. Today some people in Baltimore miss them.

Author : Kenneth C. Springirth
Publisher : America Through Time
ISBN 13 : 9781634990349
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baltimore Streetcar Memories written by Kenneth C. Springirth and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baltimore was the first United States city to begin regularly scheduled electric railway service in 1885. However, because of technical problems the line had to go back to horse car operation. After Frank J. Sprague developed an electric streetcar powered by an overhead wire for Richmond, Virginia; Baltimore adopted the new system and in 1893 opened the first electric line in the United States to operate on an elevated structure. By 1899, Baltimore streetcar lines, with their unique 5 foot 4.5 inch track gauge, were unified by the United Railways and Electric Company which purchased 885 semi-convertible cars with windows that could be raised up for summer operation and lowered for winter operation. Baltimore Transit Company was the third United States system to introduce modern Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) cars and at its peak operated the eighth largest fleet of these cars. A combination of factors including a ridership decline and making many downtown streets one way contributed to conversion to an all bus system. Baltimore Streetcar Memories is a photographic essay of history of the Baltimore, Maryland streetcar system up to its closure in 1963 and the return of a modern streetcar/light rail system 29 years later in 1992.

Author : Michael R. Farrell
Publisher : Greenberg Books
ISBN 13 : 9780897782838
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Baltimore's Streetcars written by Michael R. Farrell and published by Greenberg Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Baltimore's streetcars from 1859 to 1992.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baltimore Transit Topics written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert H. Harwood
Publisher : Quaestor2000 Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780915276448
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baltimore and Its Streetcars written by Herbert H. Harwood and published by Quaestor2000 Limited. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard J. Sachs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780960963805
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Baltimore Streetcars Nineteen Hundred Five to Nineteen Sixty-Three written by Bernard J. Sachs and published by . This book was released on 1982-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Baltimore (Md.). Committee on Mass Transportation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report to the Mayor of Baltimore written by Baltimore (Md.). Committee on Mass Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Metropolitan Transit Authority of Maryland
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
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Download or read book MTA Forecast written by Metropolitan Transit Authority of Maryland and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: