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Hill City Trolleys Street Railways of Lynchburg VA by Harold Cox Soft Cover
Hill City Trolleys Street Railways of Lynchburg, Va by Harold E Cox soft cover
Hill City Trolleys Street Railways of Lynchburg, Va
Harold E. Cox
Soft cover
96 Pages
Copyright 1977
Contents
Foreword 3
Dedication 4
1. The Beginnings5
The Coming of the Horse Cars 5
The Belt Line Extension 8
Electrification and Land8
Land Companies in Lynchburg9
The Lynchburg Electric Company....12
The Lamar Affair 13
Financial Collapse 13
The West Lynchburg Hotel 14
Electrification 14
Lynchburg Elec. Ry. & Light Co18
Rivermont Land Company18
Randolph Macon Woman's College20
Lynchburg & Rivermont St. Ry 21
2. The Twentieth Century.... 25
Interurban and Abortive Lines 41
3. Rolling Stock43
Lynchburg St. Ry. Horse Cars43
Lynchburg St. Ry. Electric Cars43
Lynchburg & Rivermont St. Ry. Co44
Lynchburg Elec. Ry. & Light Co46
Lynchburg Traction & Light Co50
Master Unit Cars 57
Car Colors 61
4. Routes 62
The Belt Line 62
The Camp Davis Extension 63
Fairview Heights 63
West End 65
Oakley Avenue Crosstown72
Rivermont72
Peakland 73
Diamond Hill (Presbyterian Cem.)76
City Park (College Hill) 78
Fort Hill78
White Rock82
Union Depot84
Buchanan Street Shuttle85
Schedules86
Running Times 87
5. Parks88
West Lynchburg Hotel88
Rivermont Park89
Baseball91
The Agricultural Fair92
City Park93
Addenda96
Virginia Soapstone Company96
MAPS AND CHARTS
Horse Car Lines7
West Lynchburg Hotel Area 17
Street Railways of Lynchburg 190023
Track changes between 1900 and 191731
Interurban Proposals42
Master Unit Car Plans 48-49
The Belt Line62
Camp Davis/Fairview Heights64
Tracks at City Park65
West End/Fort Hill71
Rivermont/Peakland71
Kemper Street Barn Area72
Diamond Hill77
College Hill/City Park78
White Rock82
Union Depot85
This volume is a sort of commemorative venture marking the thirtieth anniversary of the author's departure for the frozen North. I was raised in Lynchburg and as a child was intrigued by a street car system which was, at that time, one of the most modern small-town systems in the United States.
The compilation has not been an easy task and has occupied spare moments since 1963. Company records have long since vanished and photographs of the early days have been lost.
This volume has been assembled from the Lynchburg newspapers published between 1880 and 1941, and the memories of Mr. Busey Mawyer and the author.
The pictures have been assembled from a wide variety of sources. A few railfans visited Lynchburg in the last years to record the passing of the Master Unit cars. The resulting pictures have been reprinted and re-circulated over and over again to the point where the original ownership is sometimes difficult to ascertain. Credits have been given where possible to the original photographer and, in cases of duplicate prints where the photographer is uncertain, to the individual who provided the best print from which the printing negative was made.
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