Light rail: the affordable alternative. (urban transportation) (Light Rail Planner's Guide)

From: Railway Age | Date: February 1, 1989| Author: Middleton, William D. | Copyright information

Light rail: affordable alternative

Early in 1888, after years of electric railway experimentation, Frank J. Sprague completed a successful electrification of the Richmond (Va.) Union Passenger Railway. It was a triumphal achievement that brought the technology of the electric street railway to a level of commercial practicality, and it set in motion an extraordinary boom in electric railway development that transformed urban transit and helped to shape the modern American...

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