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Keystone State Traction Pennsylvania’s Historic Trolley Systems DJ CERA Bull 142
Keystone State Traction Pennsylvanias Historic Trolley Systems Bumped corners
Bulletin #142 of the Central Electric Railfans Association
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 2008
By Robert G. Lewis
148 Pages
Bob Lewis has been taking trips to far-off railroads for all of his life. Among the earliest was a series of trips that began in the early 1930s to explore the street railways of Pennsylvania. At that time you couldn't have found a more diverse collection of trolley lines anywhere in the country, and Bob found just about all of them.
Pennsylvania at that time had more electric railways than any other state, and they offered what must have been a greater variety of operations than just about any other. Pennsylvania must have had more lines named for cities that you never heard of than any other, such as the Skippack & Perkiomen, Hanover & McSherrystown, or Sunbury & Selinsgrove. Many lines were built to broad "Pennsylvania Trolley Gauge," while other lines used standard gauge. Two Pennsylvania interurban lines used some of the most advanced high speed electric cars ever built: Philadelphia & Western's famous Brill Bullets, and Lehigh Valley Transit's 1930 high speed cars originally built for the Cincinnati & Lake Erie and the Indiana Railroad. Much more common, however, were the aging "first generation" trolleys that kept many of the little lines going until the end, or the popular four-wheel Birney cars that so many lines operated.
Bob Lewis has captured all of this and much more in his journeys in Keystone State Traction. You're sure to learn something about the unusual or unbelievable electric railways of Pennsylvania that you'd never heard about before.
From the foreword by William D. Middleton
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