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Title
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The Kansas City El Road
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Description
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Paper by Calvin Manon about the history of the elevated street railway road, partly constituted of a tunnel running underground through the bluff at 8th Street. Information also about other streetcars, including 40 acquired from the 1904 Saint Louis World's Fair, the city's most ornate, durable, and smooth-riding until 1941. Excerpt from page 3: "The engines carried a dummy street car body, a camouflage which was supposed to prevent horses from becoming frightened along the routes where the trains ran on streets. Presumably this was supposed to keep the horses from seeing the smoke or hearing the snorting of the engine. The tiny, eight wheeled locomotives burned coke instead of coal. This was an effort to hold down the volume of smoke and cinders, the major objection to the use of steam engines for city transportation."
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Date
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1967-10-10
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Object Type
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Manuscript
