1 edition of railways of America found in the catalog.
railways of America
Published
1890
by John Murray in London
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Written in
Edition Notes
includes index.
| Statement | by various writers ; introduction by Thomas M Cooley. |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Pagination | xxviii,454p. : |
| Number of Pages | 454 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL18057019M |
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George W. Hilton has written a comprehensive analysis of the rise and fall of the interurban railways. The book gives the history of the interurban railways from their birth in the early 's to the very fast decline of the 's and 's.
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The book gives the history of the interurban railways from their birth in the early 's to the very fast decline of the 's and 's. The book is loaded with maps, statistics, graphs, and charts/5(23). This book covers the development of the railways in America; it is not really a technical work, but more a social history, and explains very well how America was virtually built by the railways.
It looks at the railways in the civil war, the boom and bust periods (mostly bust), Cited by: 7. THE ELECTRIC INTERURBAN RAILWAYS IN AMERICA, by George W. Hilton and John F. Due- Stanford University Press, Stanford, California- ORIGINAL FIRST PRINTING- This is NOT an ex-library book and it is NOT a reprint edition- BINDING is decorated gray cloth HARDCOVER with decoration and titles in BLACK railways of America book cover and spine; binding and text.
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Cuba, then a Spanish colony, built its first rail line in The history of rail transport in peninsular Spain begins in with the construction of a railway line between Barcelona and Mataró.
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