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Ottawa’s Streetcars by Bill McKeown Illustrated istory of Electric Ry Transit
Ottawas Streetcars by Bill McKeown with Dust Jacket
Ottawas Streetcars
The Story of Electric Railway Transit in Canadas Capital City
Bill McKeown
Hard Cover w/Dust Jacket
256 Pages
Copyright 2006
Contents
Editor's Foreword 4
Bill McKeown 1934-2004 5
Acknowledgements 6
Introduction:
The Washington of the North 8
Chapter 1:
The Animal Railway 15
Chapter 2:
The Alternative 33
Chapter 3:
The Ottawa Electric Railway 55
Chapter 4:
Politics and Franchises 95
Chapter 5:
The Twenties and Thirties 118
Chapter 6:
The Second World War and After 147
Chapter 7:
The Missing Sevens 165
Chapter 8:
Ottawa Transportation Commission 168
Appendix A:
Rail Transit Returns to Ottawa192
Colour Section 193
Appendix B:
The restoration of Ottawa Electric Railway Cars 209
Appendix C:
A Recollection by Margaret (McGiffin) Heilig 210
Appendix D:
Remembering the OTC, by Bruce Dudley 212
Appendix E:
End Notes 224
Appendix F:
Bibliography 226
Appendix G:
Ottawa Electric Railway Trackage History 228
Appendix H: Statutes and Agreements 230
Appendix I:
Other Electric Railway Projects in the Ottawa Area 231
Appendix J:
Kudos for OER from Engineering Magazine 232
Appendix K:
Diagrams of OER 600 and 800 Class Cars 233
Appendix L:
Roster of Ottawa Streetcars 234
Notes to Roster 252
Location of Preserved Ottawa Equipment 253
Appendix M:
Trolley Coach Photo Album 254
1954 System Map and Guide 256
1929 System Map in colour Inside of dust jacket
(remove jacket to view)
Inside Dust Jacket
The Story of Electric Railway Transit in Canada's Capital City Ottawa's Streetcars was authored by Ottawa native Bill McKeown, after over fifty years of research. It details the history of the Ottawa Electric Railway, its predecessors, and the Ottawa Transportation Commission, all forerunners of today's OC Transpo.
The book contains 256 pages, with over 300 historical photographs in large size - larger than post-card size, for more interesting detail - with more than 40 photos in full colour. The photos were carefully selected to feature not only fascinating transportation vehicles of the era, operating in their environment, but to also show street scenes in the Ottawa area, with people utilizing the transit system of the time, against the
stores, buildings, and open fields of the time. Thus, the book is truly a magnificent historical record of Ottawa as it was over a century ago, and for the first half of the twentieth century.
There are seven city, trackage and route maps, including one huge 1929 route map in full colour. A dozen informative appendices include information 1 and colour photos of Ottawa's well-regarded 0-Train project ("Return to Rail Transit"), as well as a segment on the restoration of several Ottawa streetcars.
The book includes a bibliography, trackage history, and a record of pertinent government statutes and agreements.There is a listing of other electric railway projects in the area, and a twelve-page deeply-detailed recollection of a third-generation OER motorman, including descriptions of routes and operations, as .well as delightful anecdotes about people, places, an happenings related to the streetcars. An extensively-detailed 19-page roster of passenger and work equipment is included.
"Ottawa's Streetcars" is produced by Railfare -DC Books in cooperation with Canadian Railroad Historical Association. Railfare has many years of experience producing high-quality books on various Canadian city transit systems.
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