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Interurbans Without Wires by Edmund Keilty Rail motorcar Interurbans Special 66
Interurbans without Wires by Edmund Keilty The Rail motorcar in the United States
Hard Cover w/Dust Jacket
Interurbans Special # 66
200 pages
Copyright 1979, FIrst Printing
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 9
Interurbans Without Wires 11
The Steam Car 14
Trolley-Type Cars 15
Early Standard Cars16
Early Truck Adaptations 16
Late Standard Cars17
First of a Long-Lived Breed20
1. Steam Cars27
American Locomotive Co. 27
Baldwin Locomotive Works 28
Ganz Railway Motors Co. 29
Kobusch-Wagenthals Steam Motor Car Co. 30
Railway Locomotor Co. 31
Unit Railway Car Co. 31
2. Gas Cars - The Pioneers 33
General Electric Co. 33
Hall-Scott Motor Car Co. 43
Hall-Scott-The Inside Story 45
McKeen Motor Car Co. 48
McKeen Miscellany 51
Strang Gas-Electric Car Co. 58
3. The Lightweights61
The Barber Car Co. 61
Brookville Locomotive Co. 63
Fairbanks-Morse/Sheffield Velocipede Co. 66
Federal Storage Battery Co./Railway Storage Battery Co. 69
Four-Wheel Drive Auto Co. 74
McGuire Cummings Mfg. Co. 75
A. Meister and Sons 76
Twin Coach Co. 79
White Motor Co. 81
4. Gas Cars - The Standard Era 85
J. G. Brill Co. 85
Built by Brill 90
Bethlehem Steel Co. 102
Bowen Motor Railway Motor Car Co. 103
Edwards Railway Motor Car Co. 105
Electro-Motive Corp. 109
Electro-Motive's Earliest 110
Ingersoll-Rand 120
Mack Trucks, Inc. 121
Mack's Last Hurrah128
Oneida Manufacturing Co./Railway Motors Corp. 131
Osgood Bradley 133
Pullman Co. 135
St. Louis Car Co. 138
Service Motor Truck Co. 145
Standard Steel Car Co. 148
The Sykes Co. 150
Wason Manufacturing Co. 154
Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. 155
5. The Railcar Goes Streamlined159
American Car & Foundry Co. 159
Edward G. Budd Co. 165
Riding on Rubber 166
Clark Equipment Co. 169
Goodyear Zeppelin Corp. 169
6. Railcar Rarities 171
Minor and Regional Builders 171
Experimental Propulsion 172
The Bettendorf Co. 173
Buckeye Manufacturing Co. 173
Buda Foundry & Mfg. Co. 173
Chicago Motor Vehicle Co. 174
Atlantic Works 174
Cincinnati Car Co. 174
Austro-Daimler A.G. 174
Differential Steel Car Co. 176
Drake Railway Automatrice Co. 176
Eckland Brothers 177
Electric Car & Locomotive Co. 178
Duplex Truck Co. 178
Evans Automotive Products Co. 179
Ewbank Electric Transmission Co. 179
Electro-Dynamic Co. 180
Ferry Garage Co. 180
Fairmont Railway Motors Co. 180
Fitzjohn Manufacturing Co. 180
Freese Automatic Car Motor 180
Hicks Car & Locomotive Works 181
McLaughlin Electric Co. 181
Hofius Steel & Equipment Co. 182
Ford Motor Co. 182
Motor Railway Co. 182
Jewett Car Co. 183
Hewitt-Ludlow Auto Co. 183
Hunter Electric Co. 183
Kalamazoo Railway Supply Co. 184
Koppel Industrial & Equipment Co. 184
Minneapolis Steel Machinery Co. 184
Northwestern Motor Co. 185
Pennsylvania Motor Car Co. 186
Railway Motor Car Corp. 186
The Power Car Co. 187
Skagit Steel & Iron Works 188
Russell Co. 188
Smalley Rail Car Co. 189
Pole Gas Street Car Motor Co. 190
Stover Motor Car Co. 190
Thompson-Graf-Edler 191
Watson Motor Co. 192
J. Blaine Worcester193 Yellow Truck and Coach Mfg. Co. 193
Zeitler Gas Car & Locomotive Co. 193
Index194
Acknowledgements198
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION:
DOODLEBUG. A term of ridicule-and endearment-yet nothing penetrated so deeply into the folklore of American railroading as the rail motorcar. Temporary savior of rural railroading, the "gas car" sputtered and jolted its way along the branch lines of our youth.
Rail motorcars came in all sizes and shapes, and were built by hundreds of manufacturers and back shops. Brill and EMC were the giants, but there was tiny Skagit and versatile Hall-Scott, not to mention Mr. McKeen and his knife-nosed rail torpedo.
Interurbans Without Wires surveys all major and most minor railcar builders and their products and marks a milestone in Interurbans' publishing efforts: our first "mainline" railroading book. Yet there is a logical connection between the self-propelled railcar and the electric interurban which has been the star of our show for some 35 years. Hence the name we have chosen for this volume. Our author, Ed Keilty, ranges from Maine to California with the story of the doodlebug. The documentation is, we are sure you'll agree, extensive. Our complete builders' lists were compiled slowly and carefully over a period of years, with the help of such experts as Ed Buckley, P. Allen Copeland, Al Barker and others. Photo coverage is thorough, and we know you will enjoy the many vintage advertisements which give flavor and tone to the work.
This book is but the first of several planned by Keilty and Interurbans. Our first task was to catalog the builders. Next will come a railroad-by-railroad survey, examining how each road, large or small, employed the doodlebug. A book covering the small cars in street and suburban railway service is also planned.
So here it is-Interurbans Special 66-announced several years ago and finally off the press. We hope you will enjoy reading it as much as we have enjoyed publishing it.
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