The Time of the Trolley: The Street Railway from Horsecar to Light Rail (Volume One), by William D. Middleton.

This is the 1987 revised/second edition published by Golden West Books (San Marino, California) to mark the centennial of the electric trolley (1887–1987).

Key details

• Copyright 1987 by William D. Middleton

• ISBN 0-87095-098-3 (v. 1) / 978-0-87095-098-8

• Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 87-21112

• Quarto hardcover (approx. 9¼ × 11½ inches), illustrated throughout with hundreds of photos and drawings

• Covers the full arc of street railways in the U.S. from horsecar days through the electric trolley era and into the early light-rail revival of the 1980s.

William D. Middleton (1928–2011) was a prolific railroad historian and photographer. His original The Time of the Trolley appeared in 1967 from Kalmbach Publishing (a larger single-volume work). The 1987 Golden West edition is an updated, volume-one treatment focused on the street-railway story.