Title continued: Their Location, Construction and Management; with General Plans and Rules for their Organization and Operation; Together with Examinations as to their Comparative Advantages over the Omnibus System; and Inquiries as to their Value for Investment; Inducing Copies of Municipal Ordinances Relating Thereto.
Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, 1859. vi, 149 p. 8vo. First edition. 24 plates. 9 pages of ads. Purple cloth. Spine sunned, chipped at top and bottom. Corners bumped. Endpapers foxed, moderate foxing throughout. Water-stained at bottom corner of most pages in second half of book.
Alexander Easton took his system to Toronto and established Canada's first streetcars. European systems also used his suggestions. A ground-breaking work by a street-railway pioneer.