Metropolitan Railways
Subtitle: Rapid Transit in America (Railroads Past and Present)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780253341792
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Railway transport industries; Trains & railways: general interest; Railroads; Transportation; North America; USA; General; Railroads - History; History; Local transit; Railroads, Local and light; Street-railroads
First sentence: THE UNITED STATES in the post-Revolutionary War period was a fundamentally different society than it was soon to become.
Description: "Metropolitan Railways is a large-scale, extensively illustrated volume that portrays the growth and development of the urban rail transit systems in North America. From such impractical early schemes as a proposed steam-powered "arcade railway" under New York's Broadway and Alfred Ely Beach's pneumatic subway, the book traces the development of rail transit technology through today's sophisticated systems that employ computer-era technology to attain fully automatic train operation."--BOOK JACKET.