Table of Contents
| 1. Origins of the Green Line 1867-1889 A most remarkable bridge to Cincinnati...The South Covington and Cincinnati Street Railway Company...Horsecar Technology... Consolidating the independent operators, and a rather large purchasing agent. | 7 |
| 2. Electricity and Expansion: 1890-1906 A new technology and a new era...The Cleveland Syndicate takes over...The Cincinnati, Newport & Covington Railway uses an alias...Hard times and expansion too...All kinds of bridge problems...into the 20th century. | 19 |
| 3. The Columbia Era: 1907-1929 The Green Line is sold again...New streetcars, including the system's first double-truckers...Downtown Cincinnati problems and the great Dixie Terminal...the CN&C grows to its greatest extent, despite a plague of competing buses. | 53 |
| 4. A Decade of Change: 1930-1939 Depression and doubt...crazy-quilt fares that made a game out of riding...the Green Line gets into the bus business...coping with the greatest flood in local history...the nation's first interstate trolley-coach line. | 87 |
| 5. The Green Line Goes to War: 1940-1945 Dixie Traction, which is not an electric railway...more competing bus lines bought up...anatomy of a strike...high wartime demands on the system...the dash of the Greenhound, and an Ohio airport which wound up in Kentucky. | 119 |
| 6. Optimism Renewed: 1946-1950 Green Line and the new metropolitan airport...new buses and the switch to diesels...the Green Line's Pennsylvania Connection...the last streetcars in Northern Kentucky go out with a bang! | 141 |
| 7. Down a Slippery Slope: 1951-1972 David Ringo, the man who would parlay the CN&C into a nationwide transit empire...more trolley-coaches, then fewer, and then none...contraction, lost business and retrenchment...optimism, then pessimism...but hanging on. | 177 |
| 8. TANK: a New Beginning: 1972 to 2000 Voters approve a new transit authority...going from Green to a rainbow...Dixie Terminal closed...Ringo's old ATE management company goes global...ridership on the upswing...light rail: could it be? | 205 |
| Appendices | |
| Green Line, TANK Service Tables | 222-227 |
| Green Line Streetcar Roster | 228 |
| Dixie Traction Bus Roster | 229 |
| Green Line Bus Roster | 230-231 |
| TANK Bus Roster | 232 |
| Bibliography | 234-235 |
| Car Drawings | 236-237 |
| Index | 238-240 |
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