The electric Pullman : a history of the Niles Car & Manufacturing Company / Lawrence A. Brough.
Material type: TextSeries: Railroads past and presentPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780253007995
- 0253007992
- 1299386164
- 9781299386167
- Niles Car & Manufacturing Company
- Niles Car & Manufacturing Company
- Electric railroads -- Cars -- United States -- History
- Railroad cars -- United States -- History
- Chemins de fer électriques -- Wagons -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Chemins de fer -- Wagons -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate & Business History
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
- TRANSPORTATION -- Railroads -- History
- Electric railroads -- Cars
- Railroad cars
- United States
- 338.7/62523 23
- TF920 .B77 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The curtain rises -- The catalog -- The cars roll out -- The slow decline -- A look back -- Observations -- The survivors.
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Entering an already crowded and established industry, the Niles Car & Manufacturing Company in Ohio began business with surprising success, producing well over 1,000 electric and steam railway cars-cars so durable they rarely needed to be replaced. That durability essentially put the company out of business, and it vanished from the scene as quickly as it had appeared, leaving little behind except its sturdy railway cars. The story of this highly regarded company spans just 16 years, from Niles's incorporation in 1901 to the abandonment of railway car production and sale of the property to ...
English.
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