
From Bullets to BART
by William D. Middleton
CERA Bulletin 127
1938 to 1988 - It was a half-century of remarkable change in the electric railway industry. From the debut of the high-speed Brill “Bullet” cars in suburban Philadelphia in the 1930's to the opening of the automated Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) in California in the 1970's, this 176 page book of the record of electric traction old and new--streetcars, interurbans, rapid transit and mainline electrification--in the days when the Bullets and BART were both innovators for their time.