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Cable Car In America by George Hilton 1971 Badly damaged dust jacket
Cable Car,The In America by George W Hilton
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket (badly damaged dust jacket)
479 pages index
Copyright 1971
CONTENTS
Preface9
Part One CABLE TRACTION 11
1 The Invention13
2 The Expansion 29
3 The Grip 51
4 The Cable77
5 The Conduit 99
6 The Powerhouse 129
7 Cable Economics 149
8 The Decline 161
Part Two THE INDIVIDUAL CABLE LINES .. 183
San Francisco
Clay Street Hill Railroad, 185
Sutter Street Railway, 187
California Street Cable Railroad, 193
Geary Street Park & Ocean Railroad, 201
Presidio & Ferries Railroad, 205
Market Street Cable Railway, 207
Ferries & Cliff House Railway, 217
Omnibus Railroad & Cable Company, 229
Chicago
Chicago City Railway, 235
North Chicago Street Railroad, 241
West Chicago Street Railroad, 245
Philadelphia Philadelphia Traction Company, 251
Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City Cable Railway,, 255
Metropolitan Street Railway, 265 Grand Avenue Railway, 271
Inter-State Consolidated Rapid Transit Railway, 277 People's Cable Railway, 283
Union Cable Railway, 285
Cincinnati
Mount Adams & Eden Park Railway, 289
Vine Street Cable Railway, 293
Mount Auburn Cable Railway, 297
New York
Third Avenue Railroad, 299
Metropolitan Street Railway, 309
New York & Brooklyn Bridge Railway, 315
Los Angeles
Second Street Cable Railroad, 323
Temple Street Cable Railway, 325
Pacific Railway, 329
Binghamton
Washington Street & State Asylum Railroad, 334
Hoboken
North Hudson County Railway, 337
St. Louis
St. Louis Cable & Western Railway, 341
Citizens' Railway, 343
Missouri Railroad, 345
People's Railway, 349
St. Louis Railroad, 351
Oakland
Oakland Cable Railway, 355
Consolidated Piedmont Cable Company, 357
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Cable Company, 361
Brooklyn Heights Railroad, 363
Omaha
Cable Tramway Company of Omaha, 367
St. Paul
St. Paul City Railway, 371
Newark
Essex Passenger Railway - Newark & Irvington Street Railway, 373
Grand Rapids
Valley City Street & Cable Railway, 375
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Traction Company, 381
Citizens Traction Company, 385
Central Traction Company, 387
Seattle
Seattle City Railway Company, 389
Front Street Cable Railway, 397
Madison Cable Railway, 399
West Seattle Cable Railway, 403
Union Trunk Line, 405
Denver
Denver Tramway, 409
Denver City Cable Railway, 413
Butte
Butte City Street Railroad, 421
Sioux City
Sioux City Cable Railway, 423
Spokane
Spokane Cable Railway, 427
Providence
Providence Cable Tramway, 431
Portland, Oregon
Portland Cable Railway, 437
Washington, D.C.
Washington & Georgetown Railroad, 441
Columbia Railway, 447
San Diego
San Diego Cable Railway, 449
Cleveland
Cleveland City Cable Railway, 455
Baltimore
Baltimore Traction Company, 457
Baltimore City Passenger Railway, 461
Tacoma
Tacoma Railway & Motor Company, 465
MAJOR PROJECTED LINES
Dallas Cable Railway, 466
St. Joseph Circle Railway, 468
Wyatt Park Railway, St. Joseph, Missouri, 469
West End Street Railway, Boston, 471
Minneapolis Street Railway, 472
Milwaukee Cable Railway, 474
Lincoln Cable Railway, 475
KNOWN FOREIGN INSTALLATIONS, 476
BIBLIOGRAPHY, 477
INDEX, 479
One of my father's contributions to knowledge is the concept of "gadget value" - the intrinsic interest of machinery unrelated to its use. With all respect to the steam locomotive and the theatre organ, the cable car may be said to have more gadget value than anything else.
Though I was drawn to the cable car by its gadget value, I have endeavored to set forth its economic history straightforwardly, without nostalgia, and without bias; placing the cable car in proper perspective relative to the electric streetcar requires a cold-blooded approach. Lest the reader misunderstand, the inexhaustible character of the cable car's shortcomings increased, not decreased, my affection for the whole institution as the book progressed.
The reader should also be alerted that the book is entirely devoted to cable traction of the San Francisco type, in which cars grip and ungrip an endless cable. The book does not encompass funiculars, such as Angel's Flight in Los Angeles, in which a motor on the sheave reverses the positions of a pair of cars at opposite ends of a finite cable, or counterbalances, such as the former Fillmore Street arrangement in San Francisco, in which electric cars assist one another up and down a hill at opposite ends of a finite cable turning on an unpowered sheave.
For brevity in the text, I have used the following abbreviations:
M&SP - Mining & Scientific Press
SRG - Street Railway Gazette
SR] - Street Railway Journal
SRR - Street Railway Review
My debts to individuals are particularly numerous. Those who assisted me on individual cities I have endeavored to recognize at the close of the cities' histories. On the subject generally, Addison H. Laflin, Jr., tirelessly drew from his remarkable fund of knowledge on cable traction to assist me from my first efforts to arrange an outline in 1964 to the finished manuscript, which he read in 1970. Henry C. Collins and Foster M. Palmer both allowed me to draw upon their research for books on the cable car which they themselves had projected in past decades. Colleagues J. Clayburn La Force and Bruce Herrick read the manuscript, along with Lawrence W. Treiman, George Krambles, Charles Smallwood, Jeff Moreau, Charles J. Murphy and Phyllis B. Hilton. Mr. Murphy was especially helpful in restraining my passion for grips by pointing out that I was writing a history of technology, not a Masonic manual. U.C.L.A. provided funds for cartography. The comments of Professors Donald V. T. Bear, Ross D. Eckert and Jack Hirshleifer on my rope diagrams were invaluable.
Most of the actual writing of the book I accomplished during the 1968-69 academic year when I served as Acting Curator of Rail Transportation at the Museum of History & Technology of the Smithsonian Institution. John H. White, Jr., the Curator, was continually of help in drawing on his own considerable body of knowledge of the subject, in referring me to sources which he found in the course of his own research on car architecture, and in reading the completed manuscript. Robert M. Vogel, Curator of Engineering,
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