Metropolitan Railways
Rapid Transit in America (Railroads Past and Present)
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Word Count
100,000 words, Guess
Page Count
400 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9509796M
- ISBN-139780253341792
- ISBN-100253341795
- OCLC Control Number49681301
- OCLC Control Numbermetropolitanrail0000midd
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2002006588
- LibraryThing857059
- Goodreads2217593
Classifications
- LCCHE4500.M53 2002
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.
First Sentence
THE UNITED STATES in the post-Revolutionary War period was a fundamentally different society than it was soon to become.
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