Dr. Thomas Robert Bullard was born May 6, 1944 in Chicago and died in his 49th year on December 9, 1993 in Oak Park after a short illness. He live in Oak Par all of his life, nearly all of it in the house his parents had occupied since he was about five years old. He attended Oak Park elementary and high schools, then received a Bachelor of Science in Liberal Arts from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1966. He received a Masters of Arts degree in history from Northwestern University in 1968 and then a Ph.D. in History from University of Illinois in Chicago in 1973.
Tom had been interested in transportation from childhood, when he rode the elevated and streetcar lines in Chicago accompanying his mother downtown. His father was an electrical engineer for Commonwealth Edison. Through him, Tom learned much about the technology of the electrical industry.
While operating a bookstore specializing in transportation material, Tom began preparation of what eventually totalled 29 monographs and bibliographies, which are his contribution to the history of land, sea and air transportation.
The publication in more substantial format of this enlarged edition of Faster Than the Limiteds, combining his lengthy monograph of that name and two shorter ones, Interurban to Hobart and South from Gary, is his posthumous contribution to CERA's continuing effort to record the history and technology of the use of electricity in urban and interurban transportation.
For this, all who are interested in electric railways may be thankful.
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