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Kenneth C. Springirth

Auteur van East Broad Top Railroad

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Over de Auteur

Kenneth C. Springirth, the author of 37 books on railroads and trolley car lines, has an interest in rail history as his father was a street car motorman in Philadelphia, and his grandfather was a street car motorman in Washington D.C. A native of Philadelphia, he commuted to Drexel Institute of toon meer Technology (now Drexel University) in Philadelphia by trolley car, subway, and sometimes commuter rail graduating in 1962. toon minder

Bevat de naam: K.C. Springirth

Werken van Kenneth C. Springirth

East Broad Top Railroad (2008) 11 exemplaren
Pittsburgh Streamlined Trolleys (PA) (Images of Rail) (2006) 7 exemplaren
North American trolleys 6 exemplaren
Arcade and Attica Railroad (Images of Rail) (2009) 6 exemplaren
Toronto Streetcars Serve the City (America Through Time) (2014) 6 exemplaren
Street Cars of Washington D.C. (America Through Time) (2016) 5 exemplaren
Trolleys of the Gem City (1969) 5 exemplaren
Southeastern Pennsylvania Trolleys (2008) 5 exemplaren
Chicago's South Shore Line (America Through Time) (2018) 4 exemplaren
Viewing Pennsylvania trolleys 4 exemplaren
Suburban Philadelphia Trolleys (PA) (Images of Rail) (2007) 4 exemplaren
Remembering the Pennsylvania Railroad (2013) 4 exemplaren
Erie to Conneaut by Trolley (1968) 3 exemplaren
Reading Railroad Heritage (America Through Time) (2017) 3 exemplaren
Toronto Trolleys in Color (2010) 3 exemplaren
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Grape Belt Trolleys door Kenneth C. Springirth
The coming and going of small trolley systems from about 1890 up until Henry Ford and his friends knocked them out of service is the same story just spun a bit differently each time. The second version of this is the buying up of trolley lines by subsidiaries of GM, etc, so more busses can be sold.

In this particular version, the writing is fun to read as the author was taking excerpts from local papers and there is some fun writing going on here. It's an enjoyable set of stories for this area.… (meer)
 
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ulmannc | Nov 2, 2021 |
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Werken
36
Leden
108
Populariteit
#179,297
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½ 3.7
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1
ISBNs
33

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