The Cable Car in America: A New Treatise upon Cable or Rope Traction As Applied to the Working of Street and Other Railways - Softcover
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Enriched with almost 700 illustrations, this book has long been the definitive study of the American cable car, a widely touted form of urban transportation that operated in 29 cities across the United states. This once-promising technology proved inefficient, however, and cable cars were soon replaced by electric trolley cars. Today, they are only to be found as a tourist attraction traversing the steep hill of San Francisco.
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George W. Hilton is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of several books on U.S. transportation history.
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"No one before or since attempted such a complete history of the cable railway. It ranks very high in the area of U.S. transit history." --John D. White, Curator Emeritus of Transportation History, Smithsonian Institution
"There was nothing comparable before this book's appearance, and there has been nothing since." --Robert M. Vogel, National Museum of American History
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