CHICAGO TROLLEYS

Chicago's extensive transit system first started in 1859, when horsecars ran on rails in city streets. Cable cars and electric streetcars came next. Where new trolley car lines were built, people, businesses, and neighborhoods followed. Chicago quickly be

About the author

David Sadowski has been interested in streetcars ever since his father took him for a ride on one of the last remaining lines in 1958. He grew up riding trolley buses and "L" trains all over Chicago. He coauthored Chicago Streetcar Pictorial: The PCC Car Era, 1936-1958, and runs the online Trolley Dodger blog. Come along for the ride as we travel from one side of the city to the other and see how trolley cars and buses moved Chicago's millions of hardworking, diverse people.

Product details

• Authors: David Sadowski
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781467126816
• ISBN: 978-1-4671-2681-6
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 231 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: Images of Rail; Images of Rail
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous