Chattanooga's Transportation Heritage (Images of America)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (552 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1467110264 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Few cities have had any connection to the incline railways that were constructed in this mountainous city, one of which, the famous Lookout Mountain Incline Railway, is still in daily operation. Chattanooga’s transit story has been unique from its inception. Today’s CARTA transit system has innovated one of the largest fleets of battery-operated electric buses, which other transit companies use as their model for comparison.. They were later upgraded to electric traction operations, steam dummy lines, and finally to the motor-coach buses of today. Chattanooga’s 138-year public transportation heritage is a complex and colorful conglomeration of some 32 companies that were initially comprised of horse-drawn streetcar lines
For 11 years, he operated the authentic New Orleans streetcar that still circumvents the Chattanooga Choo Choo vacation complex. About the Author David H. The fruits of his labors are vividly portrayed in the story assembled here to share with others. Steinberg has been an ardent transit and traction enthusiast since childhood. For the past 60 years, he has collected everything he could find on Chattanooga’s local transit development, including some 2,000 photographs.
Definitive, Accurate, Readable No one knows the history of transit development in Chattanooga, Tennessee better than David Steinberg. He has spent decades working with old maps, library and land records, various city histories, and who knows what all other primary sources to produce a definitive history of the street car, inter-urban, and bus systems in the city and surrounding suburbs. Like all "Imag
For 11 years, he operated the authentic New Orleans streetcar that still circumvents the Chattanooga Choo Choo vacation complex. Steinberg has been an ardent transit and traction enthusiast since childhood. David H. For the past 60 years, he has collected everything he could find on Chattanooga’s local transit development, including some 2,000 photographs. The fruits of his labors are vividly portrayed in the stor