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The White Front Cars of San Francisco – Interurban Special 44 By Charles A. Smallwood
Published by Interurbans Volume 27, Number 3 fall 1970. Copyright 1971 by Charles A. Smallwood.
Hardcover book with dust jacket. Good condition. 477 pages. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 76-152475
Illustrated throughout with black & white photos, tables of cars by number – date out – date retired. Photos include transfers and diagrams.
San Francisco is famous in history for its cable cars and because it was the first of the big cities to create a municipal street railway system. This book deals withthe privately owned transit system. The Market Street Railway Company, whose vehicles all had the patented White Front; the company was the backbone of the city’s mass transit from 1921 to 1944, when it was purchased by the city and merged with Municipal Railway.
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