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Trolley car travel has always been viewed as a romantic way to travel and was a common method of sightseeing beautiful areas of the country in the early 1900s. This collection of 12 fascinating books of this era will show you the types of trolley cars in use back then as well as the various uses and routes that they followed.

All the titles contained on this CD are listed below.

1. Hudson Valley Railway - Tidings to Trolley Travelers - 8 pages
2. Stein's Philadelphia trolley guide (1915) - 68 pages
3. Coburn trolley track 1899 catalogue (1899) - 40 pages
4. Freight transportation on trolley lines (1909) - Pease, Charles Schermerhorn - 86 pages
5. Trip by trolley around Hartford; (1901) - 95 pages
6. Trolley trips about Los Angeles .. (1900) - 12 pages
7. Trolley trips through New England (1915) - 152 pages
8. Trolley trips through New England (1909) - 136 pages
9. By trolley through eastern New England (1904) - Derrah, Robert H. - 186 pages
10. Seeing Lancaster county from a trolley window (1910) - Kriebel, Howard Wiegner - 90 pages
11. Train and trolley trips through New England. The vacation guide (1921) - 106 pages
12. Benson Bidwell, Inventor of the Trolley Car, Electric Fan and Cold Motor (1907) - Benson Bidwell - 275 pages

Here are some selected page images from various volumes in the collection:

This CD runs on all Windows and Macintosh computers. You must have a web browser and Adobe Acrobat Reader - (available for free download if you do not have it installed on your computer.) The book index is organized in an HTML menu that is compatible with all browsers and the books themselves are in PDF format to allow them to be universally accessed. Many books on this CD are searchable and printable.