Author: Louis Hennick
Publisher: Jackson Square Pre
Keywords: orleans, new, streetcars
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1975-01-31
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1565545680
ISBN-13: 9781565545687

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

Author: Ronald Dawson
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: tobin, railway, place, interurban, ysleta, suburban, paso, vol, pass, story, mule, cars, streetcars
Number of Pages: 92
Published: 2003-11-10
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0595296238
ISBN-13: 9780595296231

In 1881, the railroads came to the dusty West Texas town of El Paso bringing drummers, lawmen, gunmen, gamblers, ladies of the evening, miners, and untold others. They did not all have horses or buggies and the town fathers soon recognized the need for a mule-powered streetcar system. This is the story of how those mule cars carried the colorful characters of El Paso around town and across the Rio Grande to Mexico.It is also the story of the spoiled town pet, Mandy the Mule, and the remarkable survival of the car Mandy pulled, No.1. The author takes extraordinary care to separate popular legen

Authors:Stanley Gordon West, Stanley G. West,
Publisher: Lexington-Marshall Publishing
Keywords: streetcars, bring
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 1997-01-05
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0965624765
ISBN-13: 9780965624763

Until They Bring The Streetcars Back serves up a nostalgic journey through the streets of post-war 1949 Saint Paul, those wistful days of ten-cent sodas, big band music, and burning leaves. Stanley West weaves rollicking humor, riveting suspense and a bittersweet love story into the fabric of those optimistic times. A harmless prank, a chance conversation and Cal Gant (in the friendly neighborhoods of his idyllic life) stumbles onto the naked face of cruelty, incest and murder. When he attempts to rescue a strange and haunting girl from the slaughterhouse her life has beco