| The Cable Car in America REV Edition Contributor(s): Hilton, George W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804730520 ISBN-13: 9780804730525 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $54.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1997 Annotation: "No one before or since attempted such a complete history of the cable railway. It ranks very high in the area of U.S. transit history." --John D. White, Curator Emeritus of Transportation History, Smithsonian Institution "There was nothing comparable before this book's appearance, and there has been nothing since." --Robert M. Vogel, National Museum of American History |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Transportation | Automotive - General |
| Dewey: 388.460 |
| LCCN: 97026113 |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 8.54" W x 11.04" (3.01 lbs) 484 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 hill of San Francisco. |