[PRCo] books

Dennis F. Cramer dfc1 at windstream.net
Wed Dec 3 09:40:59 EST 2008


Here is a summation of the responses so far.  Luckily for me, I have the vast majority of these on my bookshelf.  
>From Horsecars to Streamliners  Alan Lind
J.G. Brill Company  Debra Brill (2)
Pittsburgh Streamlined Trolleys
your West Penn book, 
the popular orange West Penn Book
The Time of the Trolley (2) Middleton
The Interurban Era  (2) Middleton
When the Steam Railroads Electrified 
Trolley Car Treasury Rowsome
Not Only Freight CERA
Hilton put out a useful reference on interurbans. (2) 
There was also a reprint of Moody's from around 1924.  
CERA did reprints of GE and Westinghouse phamplets.  
Interurbans did a two volume set on Trackless Trolleys
CERA's West Penn book for the Pittsburgh region.  
PTM's pamplets on PRC.   
DeGraw's Red Arrow book
Cox's books on Philadelphia 
PCC, The Car That Fought Back, Stephen Carlson and Fred Schneider III (2)
Electric Railway Handbook, Albert Richey (ARM reprint)
Chicago Surface Lines, Alan Lind
Electric Railways of Japan series (3 volumes), Demery, Forty, DeGroote & Higgins
The Cable Car history by George Hilton.
They Moved the Masses
McGraw Hill weekly magazine 
Street Railway Journal
Electric Railway Journal, 
Transit Journal (1884-1944)
Electric Railway Review
Electric Railway Dictionary
McGraw's Directory.
Streetcar Suburbs  Sam Warner
Empires of Light  Jill Jonnes

Here are some that Ihave added:

Breezers: The History of Open Cars 1993 Meyers Transportation Trails
Century of Subways 2003 Cuhady Indiana University
Fontaine Fox's Tonnerville Trolley 1972 Galewitz/Winslow Schribner
>From Bullets to Bart 1989 Middleton/Carlson CERA
>From Small Town to Downtown  History of Jewett Car Co 2004 Brough/Graebner Indiana Univ
Metropolitan Railways 2003 Middleton Indiana University
Not Only Passengers 1992 Benedict/McFarlane CERA
Pittsburgh  How to See It 1916/2003 Fleming 
Subway Lives 1991 Dwyer Crown
The "L"  Development of Chicago's Rapit Transit System 1995 Moffat CERA
The Federal Role in Urban Mass Transportation 1991 Smerk Indiana Univ
The Last Interurban 2003 Middleton CERA
Traction Classics Vol 2 1985 Middleton Golden West
Traction Classics Vol I   1983 Middleton Golden West
Trolley Wars-Streetcar Workers on the Line 1996 Molloy Smithsonian
Urban Mass Transit 2007 Post Greenwood







Dennis F. Cramer
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