San Francisco'S Market Street Railway [Audiobook] download free by Robert Townley
- Listen audiobook: San Francisco'S Market Street Railway
- Author: Robert Townley
- Release date: 2005/6/16
- Publisher: ARCADIA PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780738529677
- Rating: 8.64 of 10
- Votes: 575
- Review by: Raquel Dejesus
- Review rating: 9.01 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/8
- Duration: 1H34M28S in 256 kbps (25.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-07
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MPEG4, WMA Lossless, MP3, FLAC, Apple Lossless, AAC, WMA (compression DEB, RAR, TAR.XZ, ISO, LZO, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 128
- Includes a PDF summary of 14 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 11M22S (2.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The Market Street Railway Company thrived in an age when rails ruled San Francisco. Spanning the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the boom times of World War II, it had a long and legendary lifetime that is deeply ingrained in the city's early identity. Gradually, however, it became challenged by the emergence of the automobile, cheaper motor coaches, and 'nickel jitneys'-competing cars on the same routes. The MSRy painted the fronts of its cars white to show up well in San Francisco's misty weather, and for many years people called them 'the White Front cars.' Franchise competition and city regulations undid MSRy, and its assets were absorbed into MUNI in 1944. However, the name lives on as the nonprofit Market Street Railway organization, dedicated to preserving the history of this company and also to retrofitting early streetcars from across the globe, putting them back in service on Market Street.
- Other categories, genre or collection: History Of The Americas, Local History, Trains & Railways
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 20.86 USD
- Dimensions: 160x228.6x7.6mm
- Weight: 249.48g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: United States
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