The Green Hornet Street Car Disaster

As rush hour came to a close on the evening of May 25, 1950, one of Chicago's new fast, colorful, streamlined streetcars--known as a Green Hornet--slammed into a gas truck at State Street and 62nd Place. The Hornet's motorman allegedly failed to heed the warnings of a flagger attempting to route it around a flooded underpass, and the trolley...

List of contents

Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Epilogue Appendix: Victims of the CTA Green Hornet Streetcar Disaster Notes Selected Bibliography Index

About the author

Craig Allen Cleve

Summary

As rush hour came to a close on the evening of May 25, 1950, one of Chicago's new fast, colorful, streamlined streetcars—known as a Green Hornet—slammed into a gas truck at State Street and 62nd Place. The Hornet's motorman allegedly failed to heed the warnings of a flagger attempting to route it around a flooded underpass, and the trolley...

Product details

• Authors: Craig Allen, Craig Allen Cleve
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9780875807324
• ISBN: 978-0-87580-732-4
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Rail vehicles; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous