Pacific Electric Railway
Title | Pacific Electric Railway PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Crise |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 9780738575865 |
The Pacific Electric Railway originally provided reliable transportation across more than 1,000 miles of track. Postwar society's affair with the automobile led to the loss of an infrastructure that could have formed the basis for an enviable modern light-rail system, one that current society would be happy to utilize. Authors Steve Crise and Michael Patris look back at the railway and its landscape today. Both serve on the board of the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society, from whose archives most of these images are taken.
Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society
Title | Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society PDF eBook |
Author | Harvey S. Laner |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2018-03-06 |
Genre | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
ISBN | 9781986272421 |
"This volume explores the colorful stories of a lifelong railfan and founding member of the Orange Empire Traction Company (today, the Orange Empire Railway Museum or OERM).
Monograph
Title | Monograph PDF eBook |
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Pages | |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Street-railroads |
ISBN |
James N. Spencer
Title | James N. Spencer PDF eBook |
Author | James N. Spenser |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1998 |
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Pacific Electric Red Cars
Title | Pacific Electric Red Cars PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Walker |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738546889 |
Of the rail lines created at the turn of the 20th century, in order to build interurban links through Southern California communities around metropolitan Los Angeles, the Pacific Electric grew to be the most prominent of all. The Pacific Electric Railway is synonymous with Henry Edwards Huntington, the capitalist with many decades of railroad experience, who formed the "P. E." and expanded it as principal owner for nearly its first decade. Huntington sold his PE holdings to the giant Southern Pacific Railroad in 1910, and the following year the SP absorbed nearly every electric line in the fourcounty area around Los Angeles in the "Great Merger" into a "new" Pacific Electric. Founded in 1901 and terminated in 1965, Pacific Electric was known as the "World's Great Interurban."
Remembrances of The Pacific Electric
Title | Remembrances of The Pacific Electric PDF eBook |
Author | James N. Spencer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1998 |
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Remembrances of the Pacific Electric
Title | Remembrances of the Pacific Electric PDF eBook |
Author | John L. Whitmeyer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1999 |
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