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Books : Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses (Images of America: Maryland)In association with Amazon.comby: Gary Helton  List Price: $19.99 Amazon.com's Price: $13.59 You Save: $6.40 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 973 EAN: 9780738553696 ISBN: 0738553697 Label: Arcadia Publishing Manufacturer: Arcadia Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: April 16, 2008 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Release Date: April 21, 2008 Studio: Arcadia Publishing Sales Rank: 679863 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Browse for similar items by category:
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