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Capital Transit Washington’s Street Cars the Final Era: 1933-1962 by PeterKohlet
Capital Transit Washington’s Street Cars the Final Era: 1933-1962 by PeterKohlet
Capital Transit Washington’s Street Cars the Final Era: 1933-1962 by PeterKohlet
Capital Transit Washington’s Street Cars the Final Era: 1933-1962 by PeterKohlet
Capital Transit Washington’s Street Cars the Final Era: 1933-1962 by PeterKohlet

Capital Transit Washington’s Street Cars the Final Era: 1933-1962 by PeterKohlet


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Capital Transit Washington’s Street Cars the Final Era: 1933-1962 by PeterKohlet
 
Capital Transit Washingtons Street Cars the Final Era: 1933-1962 by Peter C Kohler
Hard Cover w/Dust jacket
444 pages
Copyright 2001
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: Remembering the Street Car Capital1
CHAPTER ONE: National Capital Traction5
CHAPTER TWO: Merger & Modernization17
CHAPTER THREE: PCCs Electric Blue & Grey45
CHAPTER FOUR: Serving Washington ... Which Serves the Nation67
CHAPTER FIVE: Mr. Wolfson Comes to Washington127
CHAPTER SIX: Pulled Plow, The D.C. Transit Era155
CHAPTER SEVEN: Street Cars With Poles & Plows195
EPILOGUE: Whither Spain, Sarajevo or Scrapyard?301
APPENDICES:
1. Street Car Routes331
2. Track & Route Maps349
3. Street Car Assignments336
4. Washington's One-Man Stand373
5. Behind the Plow: The Conduit System381
6. Street Car Maintenance391
7. Pulled Plows & Split Switches   399
8. The Weekly Pass404
9. Rail Fans & Restoration406
10. Operating Statistics416
11 . Initial Disposition of Rolling Stock421
BIBLIOGRAPHY435
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS436
INDEX   437
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
Recalling the heyday of Washington as a Street Car Capital, Capital Transit is a comprehensive history of the Capital Transit and D.C. Transit Era. From the merger of Capital Traction Co. and Washington Railway & Electric in 1933 to form Capital Transit, the transformation of the system into the most modern in the Nation, the apogee of the street railway as Washington went to war and the long decline of the late 1950s culminating in that cold, sad January day in 1962 when the last car entered Navy Yard Car House, Capital Transit is a nostalgic look back at a Washington that vanished with "the cars."

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