[PDF] Streets And Streetcars Of St Louis eBook

Author : Andrew D. Young
Publisher :
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780916374792

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The history of the St. Louis streetcar. It covers the cars, power stations, shops, carbarns, routes, services, and more.

Author : William B. Magnan
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Saint Louis (Mo.)
ISBN : 9780963144867

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With a historical narrative and comprehensive index of street names as well as a thorough appendix of state governors, city mayors and city schools, the Magnans show how the famous, infamous and unknown have left their marks on the city with a street sign.

Author : Molly Butterworth
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 2021-10-15
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ISBN : 9781681062891

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The battle between St. Louis and Chicago to be the Midwest's leading city long predates the one between the Cardinals and the Cubs. Chicago won the fight to be considered part of the nation's first transcontinental railroad, and the Gateway City's delay in building a railroad bridge over the Mississippi River kept St. Louis in second place railroad service in the Midwest. But while Chicago had the Pullman Car Company, St. Louis featured more of the most important manufacturers in the rail industry, including American Car & Foundry and the St. Louis Car Company. St. Louis was dotted with historic rail structures ranging from its grand Union Station to depots built just after the Civil War, and a number of its suburbs were born of rail lines serving the area, with streets that still wear the names of the railroads they paralleled. In Trains and Trolleys of St. Louis, you have a ticket to hop aboard and travel across nearly two centuries through what the city built, operated, and preserved for the railroad. Hear the stories of the great-grandfathers who worked the rails, or take a walk down memory lane and a streetcar ride down to Gaslight Square. Local author and locomotive enthusiast Molly Butterworth carefully catalogues the history and significance of St. Louis' connection to its railroad days. Through the years, many of the railroad stations and streetcar stops have gone by the wayside, but their stories have lived on. Read about the ones you can still go enjoy, included in the many wonderful secrets shared among the pages of Trains and Trolleys of St. Louis.

Author : Ken Zimmerman Jr.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,72 MB
Release : 2014-07-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781088133552

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On Saturday, May 5, 1900 at 11:30 p.m., the bombing of the Suburban Line at the Wabash and Sarah Street railroad crossing marked the beginning of the St. Louis Street Car Strike of 1900. Before the strike was over, the streets of St. Louis were a battle ground between rich and poor. Read the graphic details about this explosive time.

Author : Andrew D. Young
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Local transit
ISBN : 9780964727946

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Between 1899 and 2003, St. Louis was served by close to 3000 street cars and soon will have 99 Light Rail cars in operation. In an especially-written text, this book analyzes the rich variety of passenger and utility car classes owned and operated by United Railways, St. Louis Public Service Company and Bi-State's MetroLink system. Its rosters and statistical digests come from newly-researched archival material at the St. Louis Museum of Transportation's library and the book is illustrated by more than 200 photographs and cartoons, most published for the first time.

Author : Elbridge Harper Charlton
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
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Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781455612598

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This extensively illustrated, 240-page volume documents the long and colorful history of streetcar transportation in the city of New Orleans. This reprint of a 1965 volume, written by the two leading authorities on the subject, represents the complete work on the subject of New Orleans traction and urban railways. Featured are sections on early city transportation, and the golden era of electric traction (1893-1926), along with technical aspects, trackage, and mileage routes. A series of maps pinpoints, for traction enthusiasts, the locations of tracks no longer extant and provides information on companies that once operated the network of rails. Also included is a special section on the types of cars that were used throughout the traction era. Authors Hennick and Charlton also have collaborated on a companion volume to this work, Street Railways of Louisiana , also published by Pelican.