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

Herbert H. Harwood here gives us a glorious picture of Baltimore in the heyday of the streetcar, combining the story of lines and equipment with a nostalgic vie

"Baltimore was the first United States city to begin regularly scheduled electric railway service in 1885. However, because of technical problems the line had t

An introductory high school textbook surveying the history of Maryland, with emphasis on the blacks, women, immigrants, and other special groups contributing to

One of the most colorful yet neglected eras in American transportation history is re-created in this definitive history of the electric interurbans. Built with