107: The Yellow Car

Episode 107: Let’s take a ride through history while examining the state of American transit infrastructure, the lost streetcars of the past, and the 1940s corporate conspiracy that may have stripped transit from your city. Twitter: Link Patreon: Link Shirts and more: Link Sources and Further Reading Report Card on America’s Infrastructure: Link Railroads in the Late 19th Century: Link The world’s first electric streetcar: Link Impact on Transit Patronage of Cessation or Inauguration of Rail Service: Link Peter Yorke and the 1907 San Francisco Carmen's Strike: Link The PHILADELPHIA TRACTION MONOPOLY AND THE PENNSYLVANIA CONSTITUTION OF 1874: THE PROSTITUTION OF AN IDEAL: Link Moving the Masses: Urban Public Transit in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, 1880-1912: Link Bloody Tuesday: Link Streetcars, A History: Link Engineering Invention: Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. Electrical Industry: Link United States v. National City Lines(1948): Link United States v. National City Lines, Inc.(1949): Link United States v. National City Lines, Inc.(1951): Link