The Pioneer Route and Electric Railways of Northeast Ohio

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The Pioneer Route and Electric Railways of Northeast Ohio is written by Stephen D. Hambley and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1629222976 (ISBN 10) and 9781629222974 (ISBN 13).

"This is a story about mass transit in nineteenth- and twentieth-century urban America from a business history perspective. Starting in the 1890s, a revolution in transportation emerged from Ohio's largest cities and within a single decade extended throughout the surrounding countryside connecting those cities. This revolution came in the form of systems of interconnecting electric railways, called interurbans, which were made possible by a favorable political and business culture and fed by an insatiable demand. Driven by a desire for speedy transportation services by a growing population, nascent business organizations acquired the cash, approval of local governments, and essential support of the incipient electrical goods manufacturing industry. In all of this, Ohio would be the leader. Ohio's people, businesses, and resources cultivated the emergence of the electric railway industry to a scale unsurpassed elsewhere in the United States"-- Provided by publisher.