Richly documented and vividly illustrated with photographs and maps, A Splendid Ride : The Streetcars of Kansas City, takes you on those rides through town - and on a ride through time. You'll read about the coming and going of Kansas City's streetcars, the sentimental story as well as the practical one. You'll find out how we gained such a marvelous network of rails - and how we lost it.
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This review is from: A Splendid Ride: The Streetcars of Kansas City, 1870-1957 (Hardcover)
Although I've never been in Kansas City this book tells its story so vividly it's like being almost there.This a beautiful book, a labor of love. There's not too much text which makes it perfectly understanding. It has no endless rosters of equipment (others will miss those I think) but its main focus is in general history. Although the 3 maps are on the small side - I'd rather had those in fold-outs so I could give this book 6 stars - but readible with a good pair of glasses. The whole work is so beautifully printed and has a great design. Really you'll love it.
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History of a bygone era.,
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This review is from: A Splendid Ride: The Streetcars of Kansas City, 1870-1957 (Hardcover)
Good historical review of bygone era of the streetcar in a major U.S. city. Many cities are returning to that mode of transportation..now known as light rail
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Cool book,
By Elmo Peterson "Elmo" (Kansas City, MO USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Splendid Ride: The Streetcars of Kansas City, 1870-1957 (Hardcover)
With the city contemplating spending almost a billion dollars on "light rail" er streetcars, it's interesting to see what we once had. This book is about the rise and fall of the streetcar in Kansas City from the early days to its ultimate demise in 1957.You can still see some of the remnants of the system in our streets here in KC. The wide parkway along the east side of Wornall and Brookside was originally a streetcar line that had its own separate track. If you're interested in what the city looked like before we got here and what it was like, you'll like this book. Just imagine what we'd have if we had kept the streetcars instead of the downtown loop.
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In the largest European and American cities, omnibuses-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicles with six or more seats-carry farepaying passengers over the bumpy streets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
streetcar ridership, city streetcar system, splendid ride, motor buses, jitney drivers, last streetcars, streetcar service, interurban lines, trolley buses, streetcar company, streetcar routes, bus operation, transit company, car barn, city streetcars, streetcar lines Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kansas City, Grand Avenue, Eighth Street, The Star, Ninth Street, Kansas Citians, West Bottoms, Union Depot, Troost Avenue, New York, United States, Thomas Corrigan, World War, Robert Gillham, Metropolitan Street Railway, Country Club, Kansas River, Nehemiah Holmes, Johnson County, Overland Park, Missouri River, Walnut Street, Bonner Springs, Wyandotte County, Union Station New!
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In the largest European and American cities, omnibuses-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicles with six or more seats-carry farepaying passengers over the bumpy streets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
streetcar ridership, city streetcar system, splendid ride, motor buses, jitney drivers, last streetcars, streetcar service, interurban lines, trolley buses, streetcar company, streetcar routes, bus operation, transit company, car barn, city streetcars, streetcar lines Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kansas City, Grand Avenue, Eighth Street, The Star, Ninth Street, Kansas Citians, West Bottoms, Union Depot, Troost Avenue, New York, United States, Thomas Corrigan, World War, Robert Gillham, Metropolitan Street Railway, Country Club, Kansas River, Nehemiah Holmes, Johnson County, Overland Park, Missouri River, Walnut Street, Bonner Springs, Wyandotte County, Union Station New!
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- Kansas City : An American Story by Rick Montgomery in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- John Adams (American statesmen) by John Torrey Morse on page 46
- The Interurban Era by William D. Middleton in Back Matter
- The Pendergast Machine by Lyle W. Dorsett in Back Matter
- The Geography of Urban Transportation, Third Edition by Susan Hanson in Back Matter
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