Street Cars, Light Rail & Utility Cars of St. Louis

Download or read book Street Cars, Light Rail & Utility Cars of St. Louis written by Andrew D. Young and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1899 and 2003, St. Louis was served by close to 3000 street cars and soon will have 99 Light Rail cars in operation. In an especially-written text, this book analyzes the rich variety of passenger and utility car classes owned and operated by United Railways, St. Louis Public Service Company and Bi-State's MetroLink system. Its rosters and statistical digests come from newly-researched archival material at the St. Louis Museum of Transportation's library and the book is illustrated by more than 200 photographs and cartoons, most published for the first time.