Pacific Electric Railway

Author : Jim Walker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738546889
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Electric Red Cars written by Jim Walker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Author : Steve Crise
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738575865
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Electric Railway written by Steve Crise and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 : 9780870951152
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electric Railways Around San Francisco Bay written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical and pictorial survey of the electric railways of the Bay Area. Illustrated with numerous historical photos, a thumbnail history of each company is included.

Author : Harvey S. Laner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986272421
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society written by Harvey S. Laner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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).

Author : Spencer Crump
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Huntington and the Pacific Electric written by Spencer Crump and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David L. Garcia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984624768
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Electric Cars written by David L. Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Walker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738547916
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars written by Jim Walker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local rail-borne transit in Los Angeles began with horsecars in 1874, evolving with cable-powered and later electric-powered passenger vehicles. "Yellow Cars" describes the principal local transit system in and around Los Angeles in the first half of the 20th century. The canary-colored local streetcars formed the inner-neighborhood lines between a vast rail network of main lines known as the "interurban" system, primarily the Pacific Electric Railway "Red Cars," which spiderwebbed throughout Los Angeles County and into Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. Rail tycoon Henry Edwards Huntington consolidated several independent lines into this great interurban empire. He sold it in 1910 to the Southern Pacific Railroad, keeping the Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars. These evocative photographs illustrate travel during decades of change, progress, economic setbacks, war, and postwar retrenchment, when streetcar service was taken over by bus lines.

Author : Paul A. Smedley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870951299
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Huntington Tracks written by Paul A. Smedley and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Seims
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mount Lowe, the Railway in the Clouds written by Charles Seims and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Heller
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ISBN 13 : 9780966430486
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Electric Sub-Stations written by John Heller and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second in a two part work covering all of the Pacific Electric Railways sub-station buildings.