subways

An illustrated look at how the problem of moving large numbers of people withing cities has been addressed through a series of vehicles and systems, from horse-drawn cars to the modern subway.

Presents a history of the New York City subway system, detailing its origins, construction, maintenance, and major events such as the Malbone Street Wreck of 1918.

Presents an illustrated study of America's first subway system built in Boston in 1897, and explores how it was dug, problems encountered, and opposition to it.

Richard Mayhew, a young businessman living in London, helps an injured girl and finds his life changed when he leaves reality and enters the city's underground world of sewers and abandoned subway stations--a world in which the girl he helped is someone of power and nobility.

Simple text and color photographs describe subways and introduce related vocabulary.

Shows the people involved in constructing a subway including miners, archeologists, architects, and many more.

While preparing for her participation in a wedding, adjusting to being a student at a school for the arts, and dealing with surprise visitors at home, twelve-year-old Olivia ventures into the New York City subway tunnels in search of a man who might help her friend Frannie.

A young girl and her mother enjoy a ride uptown on a city subway.

Presents a number of black-and-white illustrated pictures and diagrams that describe the history and construction of New York's subway system.