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O&CB Streetcars Of Omaha and Council Bluffs by Orr SIGNED w/Dust Jacket
O&CB Streetcars Of Omaha and Council Bluffs by Orr SIGNED Dust Jacket
O&CB Streetcars of Omaha and Council Bluffs
Richard Orr
Hard Cover w/Dust Jacket
Signed by Richard Orr to Mr. Ed Ridolph
348 Pages
Copyright 1996
Contents
A Detailed and Comprehensive Story of the Beginnings of the Street Railways in the Omaha and
Council Bluffs Environs
Chapter 1 ... The Area Is Settled; The Railroads Move In 1
Chapter 2 ... Omaha Is First to Have a Horse Railway 3
Chapter 3 ... Council Bluffs Builds a Line Four Miles Long 8
Chapter 4 ... Horses Get a New Owner; Continue Despite Disease 13
Chapter 5 ... The Carlines Begin to Reach New Areas 18
Chapter 6 ... Herdic Coaches Compete; Union Pacific Buys the Carline26
Chapter 7 ... Cable Cars Loom as a Threat to the Horse Streetcars36
Chapter 8 ... Another Street Railway, and Another, and Another. 48
Chapter 9 ... Grips Vie with Horses; Electrics Cross the River62
Chapter 10... Carlines Run Smoother as Competitors Consolidate 74
Chapter 11... Electrics Gradually Displace Horse and Cable Power94
Chapter 12... Horse Cars Are Laid to Rest; An Exposition Boosts Omaha121
Chapter 13... Formation of O&CB Ends the Squabbles Between Rival Companies 148
Year-by-Year Events, 1906 to 1955167
Vestiges Are Few but Future Plans Look Bright183
Track Map of the Height of the System: Omaha185
Council Bluffs186
Part II
23 Eventful Stories in the Rise and Decline of the Streetcar Transportation in the Two Cities
The Wagon Bridge Opening: A Gala Event 189
Recollections of an Omaha Cable Car Gripman 190
Preventing Accidents: The 1907 Safety Campaign 192
Interurban Cars Run to Bellevue and Fort Crook 194
O&CB Calls In Strike-Breakers in 1909 Dispute 199
Streetcars to Iowa School for the Deaf204
Interurbans Run to Ralston and Later to Papillion 205
Moving the Mail Between Post Office and Depot211
A New Kind of Streetcar: Pay-As-You-Enter213
The Change from 'Far Side' to 'Near Side' Stops216
Strikers Gain Little in Nine-Day Walkout of 1918 217
Street Car Topics 221
Streetcar Riders in 1928 Are Thrice Asked to Vote222
The 1928 Harris Plan of Rerouting Streetcars 224
Omaha's Own 'Just as in Toonerville' 228
Unrest Re-Develops in 1934 with 1935 Violence229
A Runaway Car Careens Two Miles and Crashes238
Women Make Able Operators During World War II239
1948 Loss of Franchise Ends Council Bluffs Cars241
The Roll Sign of Destinations 245
The Gadgets at the Front of a Ten-Hundred Car246
When Old Streetcars Are Taken Out of Service247
1955: The Official Last Trip248
Part III
An Album of 158 Professional and Amateur Photographs Spanning 51 Years
76 Photos from the 1905 to 1955251
16 Color Photos from the 1950s289
Other Photos from Omaha and Council Bluffs297
Part IV
A Historical Record of the Types of Vehicles Used, Technical Information, Track Maps and
Routes and Miscellany
Diagrams and Photos of Company-Owned Structures 310
Wrecks and Disasters 324
Roster of Passenger Cars326
Roster of Non-Revenue Cars328
Photos of Non-Revenue Cars329
Scale Plans of O&CB's One-Hundred Series Passenger Cars331
Ten-Hundred Series Passenger Cars332
Transfers, Passes and Tokens335
Chronology of the System After Its Height in 1927337
Glossary340
About the Author341
Resources and Acknowledgments342
Index 343
For the first time, a complete history of the streetcars of Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa, is presented in one volume. From the beginnings in 1866 and 1868 to the conclusions in 1948 and 1955, the rise and fall of public rail transportation in these two Missouri River cities is recorded year-by-year and sometimes day-by-day. Lest the reader lose track of the year under discussion in the opening 13 chapters, the year always appears in italics at the top of left hand pages except where a new year is introduced in 18-point italics cut into the text.
A sprinkling of events of importance throughout the world has been added to indicate what other people were doing at the time the street railways were growing up in Omaha and Council Bluffs. Hundreds of photographs show what the cities were like when street railways existed.
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