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The Trolley Titans – A Mobile History of Atlanta   by O.E. Carson

Published by Interurban Press. Copyright 1981. First Printing 1981. ISBN 0-916374-46-7

Hardcover book with dust jacket. Both very good condition. 178 pages

Illustrated throughout with black & white photos and maps.

They were two of the most colorful figures the electric railway industry ever had. Joel Hurt: obstinate, progressive, a fighter. Henry M. Atkinson: patrician, knowledgable, shrewd. Once friends, the two moguls fought to build rival streetcar comnpanies, spurring Atlanta’s growth into the colossus of the south. Their rivalry spanned the years from the lowly mule-drawn car which lifted Atlantans out of the mud to the dawn of the electric age which made possible the spacious, fast and dependable trolley cars.

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