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The Edwards Railway Motor Car Company - And its Visionary Founder, H.P. Edwards, "The Doctor of Sick Shortlines"
The Edwards Railway Motor Car Company And its Visionary Founder HP Edwards The Doctor of Sick Shortlines Author:Cary Franklin Poole The Edwards Railway Motor Car Company began producing gasoline powered motor cars or doodlebugs in the early 1920s. A contemporary of Brill and EMC, the Edwards company produced motor carsor railroads in the U.S., Mexico, and Central and South America. From its humble beginnings in Sanford, North Carolina in the 1920s, when the first car was b... more »uilt utilizing a truck body and a chain and sprocket drive, to the flashy streamlined models of the 1930s and 1940s, Edwards, along with the Edwards company and the Edwards car, is examined in detail in: The Edwards Railway Motor Car Company - And its Visionary Founder, H.P. Edwards, "The Doctor of Sick Shortlines." H. P. Edwards led a fascinating life and his work as The doctor of sick shortlines is examined as well. Edwards s work with the Atlantic & Western; Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay (Bay Line); Marianna & Blountstown; Watauga & Yadkin River; Georgia, Florida & Alabama; Atlantic & East Carolina is all documented and brought to life with numerous photographs, maps, and locomotive rosters. Author Cary Franklin Poole doesn stop here, however. Owing to both a recent surge in nostalgia for Edwards motor cars and to a fundamental rethinking of modern transportation needs, the company was revived in 1998 as the Edwards Rail Car Company. Poole follows the Edwards cars up to the present day. Someday soon you may be riding in one. Wouldn t you like to know a little bit more about them first?« less