Author: Steve Crise
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738575865
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
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
Author: Steve Crise
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738575865
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738575865
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
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
Author: Harvey S. Laner
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781986272421
Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
"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).
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781986272421
Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
"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
James N. Spencer
Remembrances of The Pacific Electric
Remembrances of the Pacific Electric
John L. Whitmeyer
Pacific Electric Red Cars
Author: Jim Walker
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738546889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
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."
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738546889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
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."
Peryhs Monograph 9
Author: Alan K. Weeks
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537778426
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
A Los Angeles native born in 1932, author Alan K. Weeks is a lifelong railfan who was present at the end of the Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railways, taking photos and building memories of the two historic lines that once crisscrossed Southern California. In this monograph, Weeks shares his memories with a new generation of railfans who actively work to preserve the heritage and legacy of the Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railways. Alan is a retired Schedule Maker for the Southern California Rapid Transit District (RTD), predecessor to today's Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). He shares his photo collection on various websites, including our own PacificElectric.org. From the days when he would frequent the 5 Line with his childhood box camera to today, Alan Weeks is a Southern California treasure, without whose tireless documentary efforts, we would all be much poorer. We hope you enjoy his memories in Monograph No. 9 from the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537778426
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
A Los Angeles native born in 1932, author Alan K. Weeks is a lifelong railfan who was present at the end of the Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railways, taking photos and building memories of the two historic lines that once crisscrossed Southern California. In this monograph, Weeks shares his memories with a new generation of railfans who actively work to preserve the heritage and legacy of the Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railways. Alan is a retired Schedule Maker for the Southern California Rapid Transit District (RTD), predecessor to today's Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). He shares his photo collection on various websites, including our own PacificElectric.org. From the days when he would frequent the 5 Line with his childhood box camera to today, Alan Weeks is a Southern California treasure, without whose tireless documentary efforts, we would all be much poorer. We hope you enjoy his memories in Monograph No. 9 from the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society.
Pacific Electric Sub-Stations
Author: John Heller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966430486
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Second in a two part work covering all of the Pacific Electric Railways sub-station buildings.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966430486
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Second in a two part work covering all of the Pacific Electric Railways sub-station buildings.