A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways: Their Location, Construction and Management....
by [RAILROADS]. Easton, Alexander
Philadelphia: Crissy & Market Printers, 1859. . 8vo, dark terracotta embossed publisher's cloth. The plates, final advertisements pages and preliminaries all have dampstains; the rest of the text is clean, indicating a storage problem when the book was in sheets. A pivotal work on inner-city transportation. In 1861 Easton was awarded a 30-year contract to run Toronto's light railway; he bought out the original company, the Williams Omnibus Bus Line (1849Ð1862) and his own Toronto Street Railway (1861Ð1891) developed the Toronto system. (Inventory #: 2674)