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This colorful history will appeal to borth the interested reader and transportation historian. Brian Cudahys skillful narrative is combined with a wealth of period photographs. The first comprehensive history of public transportation in North America to be published in more than 60 years, the book traces the grwoth of urban mass transit from the horse-drawn street cars of the 1830s through the development of cable cars, electric street cars, subways, and buses, to the new light rail systems that are playing a key role in todays urban transit renaissance. The book is not bound to any geographical region and examines transit rail systems throughout the United States and Canada.
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Cash, Tokens, and Transfers : A History of Urban Mass Transit in North America
author
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Cudahy, Brian J.
publisher
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Fordham University Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0823212785
print isbn13
:
9780823212781
ebook isbn13
:
9780585165561
language
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English
subject
Local transit--North America--History.
publication date
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1990
lcc
:
HE4500.C83 1990eb
ddc
:
388.4/097
subject
:
Local transit--North America--History.
Page iii
Cash, Tokens, and Transfers
A History of Urban Mass Transit in North America
Brian J. Cudahy
Fordham University Press New York
Page iv
Cudahy, Brian J.
Cash, tokens, and transfers: a history of mass transit in North America.
1. Local transit North America History. I. Title.
HE4500 .C83 1995
388.4/097
Fourth Printing 1999
Copyright 1982 by Brian J. Cudahy Copyright 1990 by Fordham University' All rights reserved
LC 9082348 ISBN 082521277-7 (clothbound) ISBN 0-8232-1278-5 (paperback)
Designed by Barbara Werden Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
Preface
vii
1 Boston, 1882
1
2 The Age of the Horse
7
3 Chicago, 1883
22
4 Half-way to the Stars
27
5 The Marvelous Mr. Sprague
35
6 After Richmond
51
7 Transit on Stilts
60
8 From Farrington to Paddington
78
9 Maturity
89
10 Enter the Bus
98
11 More Subways
114
12 The Public vs. Private Debate
127
13 The Rise of Organized Labor
137
14 An Industry in Eclipse
151
15 The PCC Car
164
16 The Post-war Era
180
17 The Tide Turns
196
Page vi
Notes
223
Appendix
249
Bibliography
255
Index
259
Page vii
Preface
This book tells the story of mass transportation in the cities of North America from the 1820s to the present day. Substantial portions of the book are based on a ten-part series published in 1982 as an insert for the weekly Passenger Transport, the official journal of the American Public Transit Association (A.P.T.A.), a Washington-based trade association of and for today's North American mass transit operators and suppliers. The A.P.T.A. can trace its roots to the American Street Railway Association, an organization whose founding in Boston in 1882 is the subject of the first chapter of this book.
My 1982 version was called A Century of Service and was written to help A.P.T.A. celebrate its centennial. I owe substantial thanks to A.P.T.A.'s Executive Vice President, Jack Gilstrap, as well as to the person who was then its Director of Communications and who has long been my friend, Albert Engelken, for the opportunity to write A Century of Service. I must carefully point out, however, that Cash, Tokens, and Transfers is not A Century of Service, and things I say, conclusions I draw, and inferences I make in this book are mine and mine only, and lack any association with policies and positions of the American Public Transit Association.
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Reservoir Car-house; Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; 1972. The evening rush hour is about to begin. PCC trolley car No. 3312, the lead unit of a three-car train,
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