Pioneer Route and Electric Railways of Northeast Ohio: The Rise and Fall of the Cleveland, Southwestern & Columbus Railway System
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Subject: Transportation
Author: Hambley, Stephen D
Publisher: University of Akron Press
Date Published: 05-2025
ISBN: 1629222976 | EAN: 9781629222974
BasicBinding: Paperback
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 233
Annotation: "This is a story about mass transit in nineteenth- and twentieth-century urban America from a business history perspective. Starting in the 1890s, a revolution in transportation emerged from Ohio's largest cities and within a single decade extended throughout the surrounding countryside connecting those cities. This revolution came in the form of systems of interconnecting electric railways, called interurbans, which were made possible by a favorable political and business culture and fed by an insatiable demand. Driven by a desire for speedy transportation services by a growing population, nascent business organizations acquired the cash, approval of local governments, and essential support of the incipient electrical goods manufacturing industry. In all of this, Ohio would be the leader. Ohio's people, businesses, and resources cultivated the emergence of the electric railway industry to a scale unsurpassed elsewhere in the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
"This is a story about mass transit in nineteenth- and twentieth-century urban America from a business history perspective. Starting in the 1890s, a revolution in transportation emerged from Ohio's largest cities and within a single decade extended throughout the surrounding countryside connecting those cities. This revolution came in the form of systems of interconnecting electric railways, called interurbans, which were made possible by a favorable political and business culture and fed by an insatiable demand. Driven by a desire for speedy transportation services by a growing population, nascent business organizations acquired the cash, approval of local governments, and essential support of the incipient electrical goods manufacturing industry. In all of this, Ohio would be the leader. Ohio's people, businesses, and resources cultivated the emergence of the electric railway industry to a scale unsurpassed elsewhere in the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
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