Frank K. Hain and the Manhattan Railway Company: The Elevated Railway, 1875-1903 (Paperback)

from vpfluke

This book is a nice addition to the history of public transportation in New York City. Transit has a complicated history in New York, with not a great deal of coordination between the modes, the boroughs, or indivula entities. However, the presence of strong leaders like Frank Hain made transport...

from wdwilson3

I'm neither a New Yorker nor a railroad buff, but this history of the elevated railway in Manhattan held my interest, and appeared well researched and impartial. The impartiality is important, since the author is related to the central figure in the book, Col. Frank K. Hain, who managed the compa...

from 530nm330hz

This is a reasonably well-written biography. That is, don't expect something with the flair of a professional biographer, but this is a cut above the work of a typical amateur. The subject is one which was of crucial importance over a century ago but now largely forgotten: how New York City got i...

from chelseagirl

This very thoroughly-researched book is clearly a labor of love, and would be interesting to anyone interested in the history of New York City and/or public transportation. The "just the facts" writing style made it a less compelling read that it could have been; there's not much contextualizatio...

from MrsHerrick

This book is a little dense to get through as a "sit down" read because it has an abundance of information about the elevated railway. I would say that this is a good resource if you are a train enthusiast, teacher, or doing any kind of research on the elevated railway. The book does what it is s...