George W Hilton
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This e-book contains all of the text and graphics of the original printed edition.
There was a time in the United States when railroad tunnels and bridges were only dreams in the minds of designers, when the best way to move railroad cars across bodies of water was to load them on specialized ships designed specifically for this purpose.
With this utilitarian principle in mind, shipbuilders around the Great Lakes and elsewhere built an amazing variety...
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, before good roads were common and everyone owned an automobile, Northwestern Ohio was home of the Toledo, Port Clinton and Lakeside Railway. The TPC&L began operating in 1905 and didn't entirely close down until 1958, decades after other railways like it were gone. This fascinating book, first published in 1964, contains the complete story of the line as told by noted transportation authority George W. Hilton,...