Main entry:

Hilton, George Woodman.

Title & Author:

The cable car in America : a new treatise upon cable or rope traction as applied to the working of street and other railways / George W. Hilton ; cartography by James A. Bier.

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Publication:

Stanford : Stanford University Press, 1997.

Description:

484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Originally published: Rev. ed., 2nd ed. San Diego, Calif. : Howell-North Books, ©1982.
Maps of San Francisco and Kansas City cable lines on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-478) and index.
Pt. 1. Cable Traction. 1. The Invention. 2. The Expansion. 3. The Grip. 4. The Cable. 5. The Conduit. 6. The Powerhouse. 7. Cable Economics. 8. The Decline -- Pt. 2. The Individual Cable Lines. San Francisco. Clay Street Hill Railroad. Sutter Street Railway. California Street Cable Railroad. Geary Street Park & Ocean Railroad. Presidio & Ferries Railroad. Market Street Cable Railway. Ferries & Cliff House Railway. Omnibus Railroad & Cable Company. Chicago. Chicago City Railway. North Chicago Street Railroad. West Chicago Street Railroad. Philadelphia. Philadelphia Traction Company. Kansas City, Missouri. Kansas City Cable Railway. Metropolitan Street Railway. Grand Avenue Railway. Inter-State Consolidated Rapid Transit Railway. People's Cable Railway. Union Cable Railway. Cincinnati. Mount Adams & Eden Park Railway. Vine Street Cable Railway. Mount Auburn Cable Railway. New York. Third Avenue Railroad. Metropolitan Street Railway. New York & Brooklyn Bridge Railway. Los Angeles. Second Street Cable Railroad. Temple Street Cable Railway. Pacific Railway. Binghamton. Washington Street & State Asylum Railroad. Hoboken. North Hudson County Railway. St. Louis. St. Louis Cable & Western Railway. Citizens' Railway. Missouri Railroad. People's Railway. St. Louis Railroad. Oakland. Oakland Cable Railway. Consolidated Piedmont Cable Company. Brooklyn. Brooklyn Cable Company. Brooklyn Heights Railroad. Omaha. Cable Tramway Company of Omaha. St. Paul. St. Paul City Railway. Newark. Essex Passenger Railway -- Newark & Irvington Street Railway. Grand Rapids. Valley City Street & Cable Railway. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Traction Company. Citizens Traction Company. Central Traction Company. Seattle. Seattle City Railway Company. Front Street Cable Railway. Madison Cable Railway. West Seattle Cable Railway. Union Trunk Line. Denver. Denver Tramway. Denver City Cable Railway. Butte. Butte City Street Railroad. Sioux City. Sioux City Cable Railway. Spokane. Spokane Cable Railway. Providence. Providence Cable Tramway. Portland, Oregon. Portland Cable Railway. Washington, D.C. Washington & Georgetown Railroad. Columbia Railway. San Diego. San Diego Cable Railway. Cleveland. Cleveland City Cable Railway. Baltimore. Baltimore Traction Company. Baltimore City Passenger Railway. Tacoma. Tacoma Railway & Motor Company -- Major Projected Lines. Dallas Cable Railway. St. Joseph Circle Railway. Wyatt Park Railway, St. Joseph, Missouri. West End Street Railway, Boston. Minneapolis Street Railway. Milwaukee Cable Railway. Lincoln Cable Railway -- Known Foreign Installations.

Summary:

The book is a treatise on passenger transport using wire rope traction for carriers operating on rail, popularly cable cars or street railways. The system is described. There are extensive photographs and drawings of components, particularly, carriers, grips, brakes, stationary drives, and the haulage ropes. System design, construction, operation and maintenance are covered in detail along with the powerhouses and drive machinery. Cable car economics is covered for principal cities in America. Fully illustrated with photographs and drawings. Bibliography. (CFD).

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0804730512 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780804730518 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0804730520 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780804730525 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Railroads, Cable.
Street-railroads United States.
Funiculaires.
funicular railways.
Street-railroads.
Straßenbahn
Openbaar vervoer.
Steden.
Tramlijnen.
Tramways États-Unis Histoire.
Funiculaires États-Unis Histoire.
United States.
USA.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204731
Call No.: TF835 .H5 1997
Status: Available