George Hilton (historian)

Early life and education

Career

Publications

• Hilton, G. W. Cable railways of Chicago, Electric Railway Historical Society.
• Hilton, G. W. "The British Truck System in the Nineteenth Century," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 65, pp. 237–256.
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• Hilton, G. W. The truck system including a history of the British truck acts 1465-1960
• Hilton, G. W. The Great Lakes car ferries
• Hilton, G. W. The Ma and Pa: A History of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad. Howell-North Books
• Hilton, G. W. "The Controversy Concerning Relief for the Hand-Loom Weavers," Explorations in Entrepreneurial History, Second Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 1964, pp. 164–186.
• Hilton, G. W. The Staten Island Ferry, Howell-North Books, First edition.
• Hilton, G. W. "The Consistency of the Interstate Commerce Act," Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 9, pp, 87-113.
• Hilton, G. W. "Rail transit and the pattern of cities: the California case", Traffic Quarterly, vol. 3,.
• Hilton, G. W. The Night Boat, Howell-North Books, First edition.
• Hilton, G. W. The Transportation Act of 1958: A decade of experience, Indiana University Press, First edition.
• Hilton, G. W. The Cable Car in America
• Hilton, G.W.; Eckert, R.D. "The Jitneys," Journal of Law & Economics, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 293–325.
• Hilton, G. W. Federal Transit Subsidies: The Urban Mass Transportation Assistance Program.
• Hilton, G. W. The Northeast railroad problem ]
• Hilton, G. W.; Jobe, Joseph and Plummer, Russell The illustrated history of paddle steamers Two Continents Publishing Group.
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• Hilton, G. W. Monon Route, Howell-North.
• Hilton, G. W. The annotated baseball stories of Ring W. Lardner, 1914-1919 Stanford University Press, First edition.
• Hilton, G. W. Eastland: legacy of the Titanic Stanford University Press.
• Hilton, G. W. The Toledo, Port Clinton & Lakeside Railway, Montevallo Historical Press.
• Hilton, G. W. Nellie Farren, Sir Arthur Sullivan Society.
• Hilton, G. W. Lake Michigan passenger steamers, Stanford University Press.
• Hilton, G. W. editor, The Front Page: From Theater to Reality, Hanover: Smith and Kraus, Inc.

• Pere Marquette, August 1945 issue, pages 7–21
• Tennessee Central, January 1946 issue, pages 8–15
• Meets All Trains, August 1946 issue, pages 48–49
• Carquinez Train Ferries, August 1946 issue, pages 36–39
• Where 19th Century Carferries Float On, March 1965 issue, pages 24–27
• What Does Manx Mean?, September 1966 issue, pages 24–27
• What Went Wrong and What to Do About It, January 1967 issue, pages 36–45
• Muckraking in a Day Coach, June 1968 issue, pages 48–50
• The Promise of Promontory, May 1969 issue, pages 20–28
• What Was Grand About Grand Central, September 1969 issue, pages 20–28
• Ralph in the Roundhouse, November 1970 issue, pages 44–47
• Please, No Hero for the North Western, January 1971 issue, pages 27–28
• Integration in the North, July 1971 issue, pages 36–43
• The View of the Viaduct from in Front of the Diner, May 1972 issue, pages 20–25
• What Does the ICC Cost You and Me?, October 1972 issue, pages 24–28
• Turntable: Good News from the Lehigh Valley, August 1973 issue, page 58
• Department-Store Mural, March 1974 issue, page 43
• Why Pre-Electronic Railroading Survives, May 1974 issue, pages 20–24
• Turntable: Railfanning as Education, November 1974 issue, page 66
• Great Lakes Car Ferries: An Endangered Species, January 1975 issue, pages 42–51
• Turntable: The View from Middle Age, November 1975 issue, page 82
• Slack, February 1976 issue, pages 22–28
• What Does the ICC Cost You and Me? Currently, That Is, June 1978 issue, pages 28–32
• The One Best Place to Watch Trains, December 1980 issue, pages 28–38
• Turntable: Infran-canin-ophilia, March 1983 issue, page 66
• Turntable: Railfanning without Railroads, September 1984 issue, page 70
• Turntable: Is Railroading Worth a Lifetime?, February 1985 issue, page 70
• Turntable: In Praise of the Unbuilt, February 1986 issue, page 70
• Turntable: What Should Be Preserved from the ICC, November 1987 issue, page 90
• Perspectives: The Trains Were in Transition, and It Was a Fascinating Railroad Business, November 1990 issue, pages 82–83
• ABCs of Railroading: A History of Track Gauge, September 1992 issue, pages 23–24
• Regrets from Early Youth, July 1993 issue, page 76