Book ID: CBB563774027

Key System Streetcars: Transit, Real Estate and the Growth of the East Bay (2007)

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Sappers, Vernon J. (Author)


Signature Press


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: 480 pp., illustrations, maps
Language: English

A welter of extensive and competing streetcar lines in the East Bay of the San Francisco area gradually was merged into the Key Route. Primarily serving Oakland and Berkeley, the system also reached San Francisco when the Bay Bridge rail connection was completed. (Amazon)

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Review King, Leroy O. (Spring-Summer 2008) Review of "Key System Streetcars: Transit, Real Estate and the Growth of the East Bay". Railroad History (p. 106). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bogart, Charles H.
Hansen, Peter A.
Petkov, Dejan
Brotchie, Alan W.
Kaufman, Michelle S.
Cummings, O.R.
Concepts
Land transportation
Street-railroads
Local transit
Technology and society
Railroads
Streetcars, electric
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
San Francisco (California)
Magdeburg, Germany
Port of San Francisco (Calif.)
Oryol, USSR
Institutions
Hershey Chocolate Company
Hershey Transit Company
Lehigh Valley Transit Company
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Shore Line Electric Railway
Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad
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