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JONES, WILLIAM C.; WAGNER JR., F. HOL; MCKEEVER, GENE C. - Mile-High Trolleys: A Nostalgic Look at Denver in the Era of the Streetcars

Title: Mile-High Trolleys: A Nostalgic Look at Denver in the Era of the Streetcars
Description: Golden, Colorado: Intermountain Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A portfolio of over 200 photos which tell the story of the trolley cars of the Denver Tramway which ran on Denver streets for eighty years, from 1871 to about 1950. The photos show historic views of the city and momentous events which occurred alongside the tracks. A fold-out offers maps and the corporate structure of Denver Tramway. Laid in are 3 schematic drawings of cars and a timetable, as well as an ad for Otto Kuhler prints of narrow gauge locomotives offered by the National Railway Historical Society. A publication of the Intermountain Chapter of the NRHS. --- In full dark red cloth-covered boards with gilt cover & spine titling. Volume wrapped in white jacket with image of trollies rolling past the State Capitol building to front panel. --- A well-preserved copy, tightly-bound and bright. Good-only jacket with quite a few tears and chips, roughly clipped front flap and with strips of residue from old style "Bro-Dart" jacket cover to edges, else mostly intact and in new removable archival mylar protector.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; 96 pages. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .

Keywords: >>Railroads, Aviation & Transportation >>History of Colorado & the Old West

Price: US$ 23.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 84582