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Kenneth C. Springirth

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Kenneth C. Springirth, the author of 37 books on railroads and trolley car lines, has an interest in rail history as his father was a street car motorman in Philadelphia, and his grandfather was a street car motorman in Washington D.C. A native of Philadelphia, he commuted to Drexel Institute of vis mere Technology (now Drexel University) in Philadelphia by trolley car, subway, and sometimes commuter rail graduating in 1962. vis mindre

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Værker af Kenneth C. Springirth

East Broad Top Railroad (2008) 11 eksemplarer
Pittsburgh Streamlined Trolleys (PA) (Images of Rail) (2006) 7 eksemplarer
North American trolleys 6 eksemplarer
Arcade and Attica Railroad (Images of Rail) (2009) 6 eksemplarer
Toronto Streetcars Serve the City (America Through Time) (2014) 6 eksemplarer
Street Cars of Washington D.C. (America Through Time) (2016) 5 eksemplarer
Trolleys of the Gem City (1969) 5 eksemplarer
Southeastern Pennsylvania Trolleys (2008) 5 eksemplarer
Chicago's South Shore Line (America Through Time) (2018) 4 eksemplarer
Viewing Pennsylvania trolleys 4 eksemplarer
Suburban Philadelphia Trolleys (PA) (Images of Rail) (2007) 4 eksemplarer
Remembering the Pennsylvania Railroad (2013) 4 eksemplarer
Erie to Conneaut by Trolley (1968) 3 eksemplarer
Reading Railroad Heritage (America Through Time) (2017) 3 eksemplarer
Toronto Trolleys in Color (2010) 3 eksemplarer
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Grape Belt Trolleys af Kenneth C. Springirth
The coming and going of small trolley systems from about 1890 up until Henry Ford and his friends knocked them out of service is the same story just spun a bit differently each time. The second version of this is the buying up of trolley lines by subsidiaries of GM, etc, so more busses can be sold.

In this particular version, the writing is fun to read as the author was taking excerpts from local papers and there is some fun writing going on here. It's an enjoyable set of stories for this area.… (mere)
 
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108
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ISBN
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