Suburban Philadelphia Trolleys

by Springirth, Kenneth C.

• ISBN13: 9780738550435
• ISBN10: 0738550434
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-01
• Publisher: Arcadia Pub

Summary

The Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company prospered through the hard times of the 1930s and was the last privately-owned trolley system in the United States. Aerodynamically designed Bullet cars of the Philadelphia and Western Railway dramatically reduced travel time on the Sixty-ninth Street to Norristown line. The Presidents' Conference Committee trolley cars of the Philadelphia Transportation Company linked the boroughs of Darby, Colwyn, and Yeadon with Philadelphia. Photographs of Media's 1977 town fair feature vintage trolleys in the only suburban community in the United States with a trolley line ending in its main street. Suburban Philadelphia Trolleys covers the history of the trolleys that served Philadelphia's western suburbs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 6
Introduction	p. 7
Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company	p. 11
Philadelphia and Western Railway Company	p. 51
Philadelphia Transportation Company Delaware County Lines	p. 65
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority Takes Over	p. 73
October Trolley Fest	p. 121
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