The Streetcars of New Orleans - Louis Hennick

Descriere The Streetcars of New Orleans - Louis Hennick

\n \nThis extensively illustrated, \n240-page volume documents the long and colorful history of streetcar \ntransportation in the city of New Orleans.\n \nThis reprint of a 1965 volume, \nwritten by the two leading authorities on the subject, represents the complete \nwork on the subject of New Orleans traction and urban railways. Featured are \nsections on early city transportation, and the golden era of electric traction \n(1893-1926), along with technical aspects, trackage, and mileage routes.\n \n \nA series of maps pinpoints, for \ntraction enthusiasts, the locations of tracks no longer extant and provides \ninformation on companies that once operated the network of rails. Also included \nis a special section on the types of cars that were used throughout the traction \nera.\n \n \nAuthors Hennick and Charlton also \nhave collaborated on a companion volume to this work, Street Railways of \nLouisiana, also published by Pelican.\n

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JACKSON SQUARE PRESS

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ENSTK

EAN / GTIN

9781565545687

Magazine

1

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