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8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very Good/Very Good/ hardcover, 8vo, No marks, clean and bright first [...]
8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very Good/Very Good/ hardcover, 8vo, No marks, clean and bright first edition. SImon and Schuster, New York, 1993. 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 railroads, interurbans, subway and elevated trains, and commuter lines. He points out that the LRVs (Light Rail Vehicles) of today are the modern incarnations of the old interurbans while the computer-controlled rapid-transit trains of San Francisco and other cities are descendants of the subway and "el" trains. He also speculates about the future use of monorails and the development of high-speed magnetic levitation trains. The book's usefulness is enhanced by the inclusion of more than 50 period and contemporary black-and-white photos.
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