City Trains

Moving through America's Cities by Rail

By Yepsen, Roger B.

Publishers Summary:
An illustrated history of the various types of public transportation used in cities including horsecars, streetcars, trolleys, interurbans, cable cars, subways, light rails, and monorails.

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ISBN
978-0-02793-675-9
Publisher
New York : Macmillan Pub. Co. ; c1993.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on July 1, 1993

Gr 5-8 A concise, to-the-point presentation of the history and possible future of American public rail transportation. Yepsen sees city trains as "a good way to move people" that helped bring about the development of urban centers. He describes the rails used in horsecars, cable and streetcars, trolleys, inclined rail...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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