The Cable Car In America

Author : George Woodman Hilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804730525
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cable Car in America written by George Woodman Hilton and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a treatise on passenger transport using wire rope traction for carriers operating on rail, popularly cable cars or street railways. The system is described. There are extensive photographs and drawings of components, particularly, carriers, grips, brakes, stationary drives, and the haulage ropes. System design, construction, operation and maintenance are covered in detail along with the powerhouses and drive machinery. Cable car economics is covered for principal cities in America. Fully illustrated with photographs and drawings. Bibliography. (CFD).

Author : George Woodman Hilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cable Car in America written by George Woodman Hilton and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enriched with almost 700 illustrations, this book has long been the definitive study of the American cable car, a widely touted form of urban transportation that operated in 29 cities across the United States. This once-promising technology proved inefficient, however, and cable cars were soon replaced by electric trolley cars. Today, they are only to be found as a tourist attraction traversing the steep hills of San Francisco. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Charles A. Smallwood
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780517408780
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cable Car Book written by Charles A. Smallwood and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book tells the history of the cable car in the San Francisco area. From the beginnings of the concept by Andrew Hallidie through the cable car companies and their various lines, the history has many illustrations. Appendices. (jvl).

Author : Virginia Lee Burton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547422326
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maybelle the Cable Car written by Virginia Lee Burton and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997-03-31 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybelle was a cable car a San Francisco cable car. . . She rang her gong and sang her song from early morn till late at night. . . . By recounting the actual events in San Francisco's effort to keep the city's cable cars running, this classic story illustrates how the voice of the people can be heard in the true spirit of democracy. Virginia Lee Burton's original art for Maybelle the Cable Car was retrieved from the archives of the San Francisco Public Library to re-create this edition with all the vibrant charm of the original, which was published in 1952.

Author : George Woodman Hilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cable Car in America; a New Treatise Upon Cable Or Rope Traction As Applied to the Working of Street and Other Railways, by George W. Hilton. Cartography by James A. Bier written by George Woodman Hilton and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Rice, PH. PH.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789780738525
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book San Franciscos California Street Cable Cars written by Walter Rice, PH. PH. and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Franciscoas internationally recognized cable cars are the symbol of the individual character of a great city. The California Street cable car line is one of only three remaining lines in the city. The California Street Railway, or Cal Cable, was developed and opened by Leland Stanford, one of the builders of the transcontinental railroad and later founder of Stanford University. Indeed, the iconic line, intimately connected with some of the Westas pioneer businessmen, was sold, expanded, and reached its peak mileage just after 1890, only to be destroyed in the great earthquake and fire of 1906. As resilient as the city it served, Cal Cable was rebuilt and lasted as an independent business longer than any other private San Francisco transit operation. Cut down to its present form in 1954, that remnant and its double-ended cars survive as an integral part of todayas cable car system.

Author : Greg Borzo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161423759X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago Cable Cars written by Greg Borzo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When most people hear "cable car" they think "San Francisco." Yet for almost one-quarter of a century Chicago boasted the largest cable car system the world has ever seen, transporting more than one billion riders. This gigantic public work filled residents with pride--and filled robber barons' pockets with money. It also sparked a cable car building boom that spread to twenty-six other U.S. cities. But after twenty-five years, the boom went bust, and Chicago abandoned its cable car system. Today, the fascinating story of the rise and fall of Chicago's cable cars is all but forgotten. Having already written the history of the "L," Greg Borzo guides readers through a stretch of Chicago's transit history that most people never knew existed--even though they have been walking past, riding over and even dining in remnants of it for years. . .

Author : Martin W. Sandler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195132297
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Straphanging in the USA written by Martin W. Sandler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated look at how the problem of moving large numbers of people within cities has been addressed through a series of vehicles and systems, from horse-drawn cars to the modern subway.

Author : Lucius Beebe
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787204634
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cable Car Carnival written by Lucius Beebe and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1951, this is a richly illustrated paean to San Francisco’s cable cars dating from the years when they were in jeopardy and were eventually saved (though not entirely) through the efforts of activist citizens.

Author : Virginia Lee Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maybelle, the Cable Car written by Virginia Lee Burton and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybelle is a San Francisco cable car. This tale recounts the battle to keep the cable cars running on the San Francisco hills when the city fathers decide they should be scrapped.