Download or read book A Short History of the Development of Street Railway Transportation in Philadelphia written by James Henry Millar Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of the Development of Street Railway Transportation in Philadelphia written by John H. Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of the Development of Street Railway Transportation in Philadelphia written by James Henry Millar Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Street Railway System of Philadelphia written by Frederic William Speirs and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Street Railway System of Philadelphia written by Benjamin William Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Street Railway System of Philadelphia Its History and Present Condition written by Frederic W ..... Speirs and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Street Railway System of Philadelphia Its History and Present Condition Classic Reprint written by Frederic W. Speirs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Street Railway System of Philadelphia, Its History and Present Condition Street; and return from the Coffee House at 9 o'clock, and every hour until 5 in the evening. This accommodation will be conducted and driven solely by the proprietor, who hopes to merit patronage and support. Fare each way, 10 cents; or tickets may be had of the proprietor at twelve for one dollar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book History of Public Transportation in Philadelphia written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philadelphia Trolleys written by Allen Meyers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Streetcar service arrived in Philadelphia in the 1850s, shortly after the consolidation of the city. After the Civil War, the horse-drawn omnibus gave way to a comprehensive network of streetcar lines with some routes measuring nineteen miles in length. By 1915, the electrification of the streetcar increased the number of routes in Philadelphia to a total of eighty-six. During the trolley's heyday, the city provided a vast test track for such companies as J.G. Brill, Kimball and Gorton Car Manufacturers, and the Budd Wheel Company. The Wharton Railroad Switch Company revolutionized the manufacture of switches and tracks. Of the lines that once operated in Philadelphia, five are still running today. Philadelphia Trolleys contains a variety of rare images, including a postcard of the Point Breeze Amusement Park, photographs of motormen's uniform badges and buttons, architectural drawings, early stock certificates, and a photograph of the Toonerville Trolley used in the silent movies produced by Lubin Studios in the 1920s.
Download or read book Moving the Masses written by Charles W. Cheape and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of public transit is an integral part of both business and urban history in late nineteenth-century America. The author begins this study in 1880, when public transportation in large American cities was provided by numerous, competing horse-car companies with little or no public control of operation. By 1912, when the study concludes, a monopoly in each city operated a coordinated network of electric-powered streetcars and, in the largest cities, subways, which were regulated by city and state agencies. The history of transit development reflects two dominant themes: the constant pressure of rapid growth in city population and area and the requirements of the technology developed to service that growth. The case studies here include three of the four cites that had rapid transit during this period. Each case study examines, first, the mechanization of surface lines and, second, the implementation of rapid transit. New York requires an additional chapter on steam-powered, elevated railroads, for early population growth there required rapid transit before the invention of electric technology. Urban transit enterprise is viewed within a clear and familiar pattern of evolution--the pattern of the last half of the nineteenth century, when industries with expanding markets and complex, costly processes of production and distribution adopted new strategy and structure, administered by a new class of professional managers.
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Download or read book The Street Railway System of Philadelphia written by Frederic William Speirs and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Street Railway System of Philadelphia Its History and Present Condition a Dissertation by Frederic W Speirs written by Frederic William Speirs and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Street Railway System of Philadelphia Its History and Present Condition by Frederic W Speirs written by Frederic William Speirs and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Running the Rails written by James Wolfinger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia exploded in violence in 1910. The general strike that year was a notable point, but not a unique one, in a generations-long history of conflict between the workers and management at one of the nation's largest privately owned transit systems. In Running the Rails, James Wolfinger uses the history of Philadelphia’s sprawling public transportation system to explore how labor relations shifted from the 1880s to the 1960s. As transit workers adapted to fast-paced technological innovation to keep the city’s people and commerce on the move, management sought to limit its employees’ rights. Raw violence, welfare capitalism, race-baiting, and smear campaigns against unions were among the strategies managers used to control the company’s labor force and enhance corporate profits, often at the expense of the workers’ and the city’s well-being. Public service workers and their unions come under frequent attack for being a "special interest" or a hindrance to the smooth functioning of society. This book offers readers a different, historically grounded way of thinking about the people who keep their cities running. Working in public transit is a difficult job now, as it was a century ago. The benefits and decent wages Philadelphia public transit workers secured—advances that were hard-won and well deserved—came as a result of fighting for decades against their exploitation. Given capital’s great power in American society and management's enduring quest to control its workforce, it is remarkable to see how much Philadelphia’s transit workers achieved.
