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Paperback Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses Book

ISBN: 0738553697

ISBN13: 9780738553696

Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses

(Part of the Images of America: Maryland Series)

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In the 1850s, Baltimore's 170,000 residents had few options when it came to getting around town. Before the decade's end, however, the omnibus--an urban version of the stagecoach--emerged as Baltimore's first mass-transit vehicle. Horsecars followed, then cable cars, and ultimately electrically powered streetcars. Recognizing the need for cohesion, the city's myriad transit providers merged into a single operator. United Railways and Electric Company,...

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