Book

Author:	Spencer Crump
Title:	Ride The Big Red Cars
Subtitle:	How Trolleys Helped Build Southern California
Publisher:	Trans-Anglo Books
Country:	USA
Date:	1970
Format:	Hardcover
Class Number:	388.46097949
Genre:	Transport, History
ISBN-10:	0870460471
First Published:	1962
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
» Search eBay #AD » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

PRICE GUIDE

Add Valuation

Notes

256 pages 8 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches. Indicates 2nd Edition (Revised)
While distributed by Interurban Press, their catalog indicated this book as TAB 247, this was not in the book.

Images

Comments and Reviews


WPLives 23rd Jul 2021		The trains-vs-cars politics won't surprise you. Nor will the NIMBY attitudes, so common for the era. You'll keep reading, though, for the maps, the charts, the photos. We've all heard the conspiracy theories pointing to the automakers, especially GM, in actively pushing the Red Cars into the dustbin of history. The author also blames it generally on cars, but without pointing at corporations. He has the data to back it up. Just as "guns don't kill people," autos didn't kill the Red Car. People killed the Red Car. It was a standard-issue death spiral. The Red Cars once were the generally accepted way to get around. They had the roads mostly to themselves and tooled around the city on reliable schedules. Then came the auto, competing with the Red Cars for street space. This slowed the Red Cars down. Which made some people want their own cars. Those cars slowed the trains down even more, stoking more desire for autos. Ultimately the snarled traffic left the Red Cars nearly immobile. A couple of graphs in this book neatly show the inverse correlation between travel time and ridership. Perhaps the automakers did help this process along. But it was quite doing nicely on its own, thank you very much...

Add a Comment or Review about this book

See Also

Book

Spencer Crump - Henry Huntington And The Pacific Electric - Trans-Anglo Books - Hardcover - USA - 087046048X (1978)

Next by Author

Book

Spencer Crump - Western Pacific - Trans-Anglo Books - Hardcover - USA (1963)

Previous by Author

Book

Kent Stephens - Matches, Flumes, And Rails - Trans-Anglo Books - Hardcover - USA - 0870460307 (1977)

Next by Publisher

Book

Hank Johnston - The Railroad That Lighted Southern California - Trans-Anglo Books - Hardcover - USA - 0870460129 (1966)

Previous by Publisher

This Book: Price Guide : Add Valuation : Add Image : Add Video : Add Missing Info : Make Correction : Add to List : Add See Also : Add Tag : Edit Images : Show Image Data : Credits : BBCode