A full history of all the New York City subway equipment from their first standard car design, the R#1 to the present day R#160 subway cars. Full history and discription of each type with many color photograhes and dementional drawing of every type. This is the only publication to completely discribe one of the World's largest subway fleet.

New York City Subway Cars

Engineering & Transportation

Greller, James C.

J. Greller

Transportation

Xplorer Press

This book discribes in detail the Dual Contracts Program that built the IRT and BMT Systems, through diagrams and Photograhes. This work is useful to th historian and modeler of Rapid transit lines.

Building the New Rapid Transit System of New York City Circa 1915

James C. Greller

F. Lavis

Lavis, Fred

A complete history of New York s first fleet of subway cars. The original cars of wood & steel to the America s first steel railway car. Many rare photographs combined with historical text will have the reader realize the importance of the IRT and its efforts and car design on the world s greatest metropolis.

Interborough Fleet

Cunningham, Joe

Joe Cunningham

History

A pictorial of the pioneer PCC trolley fleet of Brooklyn. From 1936 to the end of trolley operations in 1956, this first order of PCC cars are traced one car at a time. In 87 pages, all in black &amp; white photographs, each car comes to represent a stage of their short history.

100 PCC Trolley Cars Ran in Brooklyn

James Clifford Greller

This book is a collection of articles from the former publication Electriclines magazine on the pioneers who developed present day electric transportation. The book covers inventors such as Frank Sprague, Nikola Tesla, Bion Arnold and Van Depoele. Other stories cover the first electric locomotive, the first railroad main line electrification, electrifying the Manhattan El s, the development of power supply for distribution and writing on Westinghouse, General Electric and Werner Von Siemens. This book is good for children and adults. It illustrates the men and idea s that changed our lives forever. For like our present day where the computer is vastly changing our world rapidly, over 100 years ago it was electric power that changed everyone s life for the better and these men made it a reality. 48 pages B/W many photographs and charts.

The Men Who Pioneered Electric Transportation

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