A groundbreaking guide to flower flies in North America 
This is the first comprehensive field guide to the flower flies (also known as hover flies) of northeastern North America. Flower flies are, along with bees, our most important pollinators. Found in a varied range of habitats, from backyard gardens to aquatic ecosystems, these flies are often overlooked because many of their species mimic bees or wasps. Despite this, many species are distinctive and even subtly differentiated species can be accurately identified. This handy and informative guide teaches you how.
With more than 3,000 color photographs and 400 maps, this guide covers all 416 species of flower flies that occur north of Tennessee and east of the Dakotas, including the high Arctic and Greenland. Each species account provides information on size, identification, abundance, and flight time, along with notes on behavior, classification, hybridization, habitats, larvae, and more.
Summarizing the current scientific understanding of our flower fly fauna, this is an indispensable resource for anyone, amateur naturalist or scientist, interested in discovering the beauty of these insects.
· 3000+ color photos (field and museum shots)
· Multiple images per species, with arrows highlighting key field marks
· Grayscale images showing the actual size of the insect
· Range maps for each species
· Information on size, identification features, abundance, flight times, and more

Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America (Princeton Field Guides, 118)

Science & Math

Marshall, Stephen A.

Young, Andrew D.

Skevington, Jeffrey H

Locke, Michelle M.

Moran, Kevin

Crins, William J

Biological Sciences

Princeton University Press

Well-done history of the preservation movement for trolleys (tracing the death of electric street railways in the US, the junking of most cars and the subsequent efforts to save what remained) followed by a look at 26 trolley and interurban museums and their collections. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. Includes rosters and track maps. This is Interurbans Special 85. 158 pages.

Trolley to the past: A brief history and companion to the operating trolley museums of North America (Interurbans special)

Interurban Press

Great photographic collection from the St Louis Car Company Archives in the holdings of the Washington University collections in St Louis, MO. The book is 160 pages filled full of B&amp;W and color photos with captions of the assorted products manufactured by the St. Louis Car Company from its beginnings to its demise. Noted for electric trolleys, street cars, subway cars, and rail cars, they also ventured into many other areas of manufacturing based on the capabilities and skills of the craftsmen who worked there. They manufactured automobiles, buses, aircraft, and military goods during both wars. This book focuses on the trolley cars and is great for railroad enthusiasts and model train buffs.

St. Louis Car Company Album (INTERURBANS SPECIAL)

Business & Money

Interurban Pr

Fascinating and comprehensive study of the evolution of public transportation in St. Louis, MO from the very earliest days of horse drawn omnibuses to the end of streetcar service in 1966 and the use of modern diesel buses. This is the story of the growth of an enormously complex system: the cars, the power stations, shops, car barns, routes, services, early and later technological developments. And it covers the whole spectrum of cars: the horse drawn buses, cable cars, electric street railways, the special intramural street railway for the St. Louis's World Fair, early buses, PCC cars, and diesel buses. And the people who built they system -- the politicians, engineers, system employees -- are also covered along with the franchise finagling, boodle and bribery that accompanied the use and misuse of the municipal franchise. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With maps, including two on the end papers. 229 pages with index.

The st Louis Streetcar Story (INTERURBANS SPECIAL)

St. Louis streetcars served the city from 1859 until 1966, when the last car ran from downtown to Suburban Gardens, Wellston along Olive Street and the Hodiamont right-of-way, Horse and cable cars were used at first but they were swept away in the 1890s by the electric cars. By World War Um the city and its suburbs were connected by a huge network of lines that stimulated the growth f the suburbs. This book provides a history of the last forty years of the St. Louis streetcar system and how it was replaced by buses and eventually private automobiles. 52 pages.

St. Louis and its streetcars: The way it was

Archway Publ

A guide to North America's mass transit museums, tourist trolley operators and private mass transit collections.

Veteran and Vintage transit, a guide to North America's mass transit museums, tourist trolley operators and private mass transit collections.

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Archway Publishing

The years 1946-1966 brought tremendous change to community life, especially in the inner ring of St. Louis suburbs originally created by the streetcar. This unusual collection of more than 300 photographs documents those changes as it records the line-by-line, suburb-by-suburb disappearance of the streetcar from St. Louis. Almost all the photographs are the work of St. Louisan Ray Gehl and most have never been published before. They are a unique record of a time well within living memory, yet utterly different from the way most folk live now.

Streets and Streetcars of St. Louis: A Sentimental Journey

Between 1899 and 2003 St. Louis was served by almost 300 street cars and soon will have 99 Light Rail cars in operation. This book examines and analyzes the rich variety of passenger and utility car classes owned and operated by United Railways, St. Louis Public Service Company and Bi-State's MetroLink system. Rosters and statistical digests come from newly-researched material at the St. Louis Museum of Transportation's Archives and there are more than 200 photographs, most published for the first time.

Street Cars, Light Rail and Utility Cars of St. Louis, 1899-2003

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