Philadelphia Rapid Transit: Construction and Equipment of the Market Street Subway and Elevated
Philadelphia Rapid Transit: Construction and Equipment of the Market Street Subway and Elevated

Author: Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 1430325518

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In 1903 the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company broke ground on an ambitious project, to create the City of Brotherly Love's first high speed rail system. When it opened on March 4, 1907, the Market Street Subway-Elevated Line was greeted with acclaim. Running from the suburbs of West Philadelphia on elevated tracks, trains ducked underground to reach the city center. The line would be joined by the Frankford Elevated in 1922, and merged into today's Market-Frankford Line, now operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). Originally printed in 1907 to celebrate the opening of the subway line, Philadelphia's Rapid Transit include descriptive text, and dozens of rare photos showing the men who built the line. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into the construction and design of one of the nation's earliest municipal railway systems. This reprint has been slightly reformatted, but care has been taken to preserve the integrity of the text.

Philadelphia's Rapid Transit; Being an Account of the Construction and Equipment of the Market Street Subway-elevated and Its Place in the Great System and Service of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Philadelphia's Rapid Transit; Being an Account of the Construction and Equipment of the Market Street Subway-elevated and Its Place in the Great System and Service of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company

Author: Philadelphia Arnold & Dyer

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781020767678

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This is an informative and comprehensive guide to the construction and operation of the Market Street subway-elevated system in Philadelphia. It provides detailed technical information on the design and construction of the system, as well as its economic and social impact on the city. The book also includes many photographs and illustrations of the system and its surroundings. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Philadelphia's Rapid Transit
Philadelphia's Rapid Transit

Author: Arnold Dyer

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781332289110

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Excerpt from Philadelphia's Rapid Transit: Being an Account of the Construction and Equipment of the Market Street Subway-Elevated and Its Place in the Great System and Service of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company The work is now completed; it is a monument to the unselfish public spirit of the financial interests which attempted it, to the skill of the engineers who designed it and the contractors who built it, under difficulties never before encountered in similar work. Whether it will pay directly is a question yet to be determined. If, however, it should bring to the management of the present operating Company, the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, some recognition from the public that their interests are first considered, it will at once prove a profitable investment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Philadelphia's Rapid Transit
Philadelphia's Rapid Transit

Author: Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company

Publisher:

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781935700265

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In 1903 the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company broke ground on an ambitious project, to create the City of Brotherly Love's first high-speed rail system. When it opened on March 4, 1907, the Market Street Subway-Elevated Line was greeted with acclaim. Running from the suburbs of West Philadelphia on elevated tracks, trains ducked underground to reach the city center. The line would be joined by the Frankford Elevated in 1922, and merged into today's Market-Frankford Line, now operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). Originally printed in 1907 to celebrate the opening of the subway line, Philadelphia's Rapid Transit include descriptive text, and dozens of rare photos showing the men who built the line. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into the construction and design of one of the nation's earliest municipal railway systems. This reprint has been slightly reformatted, but care has been taken to preserve the integrity of the text.

Philadelphia's Rapid Transit; Being an Account of the Construction and Equipment of the Market Street Subway-Elevated and Its Place in the Great Syste
Philadelphia's Rapid Transit; Being an Account of the Construction and Equipment of the Market Street Subway-Elevated and Its Place in the Great Syste

Author: Philadelphia Arnold & Dyer

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2012-01

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9781290315418

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Interborough Rapid Transit
Interborough Rapid Transit

Author: Interborough Rapid Transit Company

Publisher:

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781935700272

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In 1903 the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company broke ground on an ambitious project, to create the City of Brotherly Love's first high speed rail system. When it opened on March 4, 1907, the Market Street Subway-Elevated Line was greeted with acclaim. Running from the suburbs of West Philadelphia on elevated tracks, trains ducked underground to reach the city center. The line would be joined by the Frankford Elevated in 1922, and merged into today's Market-Frankford Line, now operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). Originally printed in 1907 to celebrate the opening of the subway line, Philadelphia's Rapid Transit include descriptive text, and dozens of rare photos showing the men who built the line. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into the construction and design of one of the nation's earliest municipal railway systems. This reprint has been slightly reformatted, but care has been taken to preserve the integrity of the text.