Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction Co
Author : William Reed Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Street-railroads
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Author : William Reed Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Street-railroads
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Author : William Reed Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Street-railroads
ISBN :
Author : William Reed Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Street-railroads
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Author : Stephen G. Myers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780738573717
As a growing city on Lake Erie, Buffalo was considered the second largest railroad hub in the United States and earned the name of the Queen City as it became the second-largest city in the state of New York, due to the railroad's influence. Original.
Author : Lawrence A. Brough
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2004-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780253343697
The Jewett Car Company was born in the heyday of the electric railway boom in the 1890s. The company gained an excellent reputation for its elegant, well-built wooden cars for street railway companies, interurban lines, and rapid transit service. Cities large and small used Jewett cars, including New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Many Jewett cars found their way to Indiana and many of the interurban lines employed the graceful, arch-windowed wood interurban that Jewett was famous for.Automobile competition and the problems of competing with much larger car builders, such as J.G. Brill and the St. Louis Car Company, signaled the beginning of the end. The company was offered the opportunity to produce munitions for World War I, but refused. The reason: the major source of finance for Jewett was a German nationalist banker from Wheeling, West Virginia, who refused to have the company do anything to harm Germany. As a direct result of that action, the Jewett Car Company failed.
Author : Frederic Nicholas
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Investments
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Author : Shane E. Stephenson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,97 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1467134899
When Buffalo was incorporated as a city, the East Side represented a vast forested area and farmland that would one day be booming with industry. By 1832, the beginnings of the major arterials of Genesee, Sycamore, Broadway, William, Clinton, and Seneca were there. These streets were laid out in 1826 and represented the seeds of the East Side's explosive growth. The development of railroads and the Buffalo Belt Line, constructed in 1883, created a semicircle pattern that outlined the East Side. Industries began sprouting up, eager to use their proximity to the belt line to transport wares all over the country. Immigrants from Germany, Poland, and Ireland, along with African Americans from northern and southern states, began establishing their lives around these industries. Access to land, water, roads, and rail lines and eager immigrants and natives looking for work led to the development of Buffalo's East Side industry, an immensely diverse industrial base and workforce.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Investments
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Author : Brent Cassan
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
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Publisher :
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.