Pacific Electric Red Cars (Images of Rail: California)
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (796 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0738546887 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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"excellent gift!!!!!" according to Magda B.. Wow! My father LOVED the heck out of this book. I hit a home run when I got it for his birthday!! To hear him telling strangers about it was worth every penny!!!If you know somebody who lived in LA area during this era, you should bless them with this slice of history.. Review Of A Very Good Pacific Electric Book Vincent C. Reiner Jr. Although there's a plethora of books written about PE, I would recomend this title for those who are uninitated to Pacific Electric.This book gives a very fact ridden synopsis of one of the US's busiest passenger and freight hauler.Thew ran 9300 (!) scheduled passenger trains and had a large LCL box motor operation. Yhat's in addition to 100's of electrically/steam/diesel hauled freight trains throughout the LA Valley area.All this ran on 900 miles of right of way, including the famous Watts 4 track raceway and the subway terminal caddy corner to the elevated PE Terminal in the above mentioned termin. Must have for Traction fans This book is done by the Historian for METRO in Los Angeles and makes liberal use of Pacific Electric original files and photos which are a part of METRO'S historic archives. It is an outstanding book. and a must have for trolley, interurban, and light rail fans.
. Jim Walker, the author or editor of more than 40 railway books, was a founder of the Orange Empire Railway Museum at Perris, California, which preserves many cars, locomotives, and memorabilia from the PE. This compendium uses the superb collection of vintage photographs housed at the Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library at the Los Angeles County
. Jim Walker, the author or editor of more than 40 railway books, was a founder of the Orange Empire Railway Museum at Perris, California, which preserves many cars, locomotives, and memorabilia from the PE. About the Author This compendium uses the superb collection of vintage photographs housed at the Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority as well as other sources. He is the archivist/curator of Metro’s library
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. E.” and expanded it as principal owner for nearly its first decade. The Pacific Electric Railway is synonymous with Henry Edwards Huntington, the capitalist with many decades of railroad experience, who formed the “P. Founded in 1901 and terminated in 1965, Pacific Electric was known as the “World’s Great Interurban.”. Of the rail lines create