The Cable Car in America

Reviews / Votes

"No one before or since attempted such a complete history of the cable railway. It ranks very high in the area of U.S. transit history." -John D. White, Curator Emeritus of Transportation History, Smithsonian Institution "There was nothing comparable before this book's appearance, and there has been nothing since." -Robert M. Vogel, National Museum of American History Review of the Original Edition
"Between the covers of this one volume lies the entire history of a mode of urban transportation, from invention through development and demise. It is done thoroughly, interestingly, and with magnificent illustrations. It could only have been done by a person who was at once a competent scholar, a serious railfan, a historian with a broad perspective, and a writer able to communicate with the professional and amateur alike. And Professor Hilton is just that."-Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin "One opens this book with a mixture of wonder, envy, admiration, and awe. At first glance it seems to be another coffee-table book. . . . Then you open it, and find that it is nothing less than a superbly researched compendium of every cable tramway ever built in North America. . . . Read it and you are left with a dazed feeling that, on this particular subject, not one other word need ever be written."-Modern Tramway and Light Rail Transit