CSPAN3 Lectures In History June 5, 2016
It is certainly one of the least studied aspects of American Transportation history. And one that ime want you to keep in mind is that we can make the argument that trolley is the linkage betweens team railroad. Perhaps we would not have the interurban area. The we can make a case that interurban is the transition freightSteam Railroads and the coming of the motor truck. To begin, the innercity road system was awful. It thatalk about continued into the 20th century. We had that National Road that was financed by the federal government in the 1840s. It will not be there until the 1890s that the...