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Chicago Cable Cars by Greg Borzo Soft cover
Chicago Cable Cars by Greg Borzo soft cover
Chicago Cable Cars
Greg Borzo
Soft cover
192 pages
Copyright 2012
Contents
Foreword: Not to Be Forgotten, by Jacob Kaplan9
Acknowledgements13
Introduction: Chicago's Central Role in Cable Car History15
1. How Cable Cars Work27
2. The Cable Car Experience43
3. Before Cable Cars: Horse Power57
4. Cable Cars Arrive on the Scene69
5. Cable Cars on the South Side75
6. South Side Car Barn Bandits97
7. Transit Titan, Cable Car Czar103
8. Cable Cars on the North Side121
9. Cable Cars on the West Side133
10. Chicago's Cable Car Mail Service147
11. Demise of Chicago's Cable Cars153
12. Cable Cars Around the Country167
13. Chicago's Cable Car Remnants175
Afterword 185
Bibliography 187
About the Author 191
WHEN MOST PEOPLE hear "cable car" they think "San Francisco." Yet for almost one-quarter of a century Chicago boasted the largest cable car system the world has ever seen, transporting more than one billion riders. This gigantic public work filled residents with pride and filled robber barons' pockets with money. It also sparked a cable car building boom that spread to twenty-six other U.S. cities. But after twenty-five years, the boom went bust, and Chicago abandoned its cable car system. Today, the fascinating story of the rise and fall of Chicago's cable cars is all but forgotten. Having already written the history of the "L," Greg Borzo guides readers through a stretch of Chicago's transit history that most people never knew existed even though they have been walking past, riding over and even dining in remnants of it for years.
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