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Electric Railways of Minneapolis and St. Paul W-14

Chip Savoye — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:57:27 +0000

Fascinating and detailed history of Minnesota’s electric street railways. Covers streetcar systems, interurbans (electric and gas-electric), industrial railways, car manufacturers, monorails and cable railways, related steamboat lines, North Dakota lines, and the Minnesota Transportation Museum’s Como-Harriet streetcar line. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos, maps, schematic diagrams, and track diagrams. With rosters, timetables and bibliography. 560 pages.

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Traction Classics The Interurbans The Great Wood and Steel Cars by William D. Middleton W-5

Chip Savoye — Sat, 31 May 2025 01:26:50 +0000

TRACTION CLASSICS: THE INTERURBANS, THE GREAT WOOD AND STEEL CARS by William D. Middleton; PUBLISHER: Golden West Books, San Marino, CA; 1983 printing; 257 pages.

The interurban electric railways were an uncommonly colorful chapter in the history of American transport that originated from the technology of the electric street railway late in the 19th century. The speed, convenience, and reliability they brought to short-haul transportation gave rural and small town America a new freedom and mobility, and the interurbans enjoyed an exciting era of growth and prosperity in the opening decades of the century. Their collapse came almost as swiftly in the years after World War I, when the automobile came along to do the local transportation job even better.

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Pacific Electric In Color Volume 1 Allen Copeland W3-A W-5A

Chip Savoye — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 19:00:30 +0000

extensive full color photos and descriptions of 40’s and 50’s LA area pacific electric interurban equipment. beautiful photograph

128 Pages Morning Sun Bo0ks, 1997

W-5A

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Red Trains Remembered by Robert S. Ford (W-26A)

Gene Harmon — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 02:40:39 +0000

This 114 page hard cover book was published in 1980 (First Printing) describes all aspects of Southern Pacific’s Transbay interurban system including ferries. It has maps, timetables, and well captioned images. Published by Interurbans, this book is in like-new condition with a dust jacket. (W-26A)

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Lines of Pacific Electric Northern and Eastern Districts edited by Jim Walker (W-26A, 3A)

Gene Harmon — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:35:36 +0000

This 113 page softbound book was published by Interurban Press in 1976. It documents the PE Northern and Eastern Districts with B&W illustrations with innumerable maps and excellent captions. The book is in fine used condition with no marks or tears.

W-26A, 3A

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Lines of Pacific Electric Southern & Western Districts edited by Jim Walker (W-26A)

Gene Harmon — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:34:42 +0000

This 209 page softbound book was published by Interurban Press in 1975. It documents the PE Southern and Western Districts with B&W illustrations with inumerable maps and excellent captions. The book is in fine used condition with no marks or tears.

W-26A

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Ride the Big Red Cars by Spencer Crump (W 26)

Gene Harmon — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:08:52 +0000

This is the history of how Pacific Electric built Southern California. The 75,000 word text with more than 200 illustrations, maps, rosters and an index. This book was published by Trans-Anglo Books in 1962 (3rd edition -revised) and is in like-new condition with a paper jacket.

Locator box 26

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Interurbans Without Wires by Edmund Keilty (JD)

Gene Harmon — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:46:51 +0000

This is the history of the rail motorcar in America, and it surveys all manufacturers from Brill to EMC to Skagit, Hall-Scott to Zeitler Gas Car and Locomotive, and from Maine to California in 198 B&W pages. Published in 1979 by Interurban Press, this book is in good condition with a paper jacket with some tears and wear marks.

Locator: JD

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Route of the Orange Limited by William Gordon (W 19)

Gene Harmon — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:21:59 +0000

This small format 107 page paperback book covers the history of the Rochester (NY) & Eastern Railway and associated lines. This interurban line operated between Canandaigua and Rochester and associated lines between 1900 and 1930. Published in 1953 by the author, this book is in good used condition.

Locator box 19

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Trolleys and Streetcars on American Postcards by Ray Applegate (W 31)

Gene Harmon — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:06:54 +0000

This softbound book has 191 reproductions, with 19 in color, from 162 different locations in all states except Alaska with full captions. Published in 1979 by Dover Publications, this book is in good used condtion.

Locator box 31

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