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.
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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. 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. He is the archivist/curator of Metro's library.
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Must have for Traction fans,
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This review is from: Pacific Electric Red Cars (Images of Rail: California) (Paperback)
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.
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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 terminal building. Many foreign car manufacturers use the terminal building as a "modern" backdrop for their car ads. Talk about longevity!!! Photos run from excellent to very good and still sharp, except very old ones that are technically limited so. This book is one of Arcadia's Regional Titles. For the most part they are all excellent. I got the one on Queens county and found out that a streetcar line ran through mostly back yards from Flushing NY to Jamaica NY. That explains the wide street on 164th St, which would otherwise be a narrow Queens street. No other source published this type of information. if you want a good primer, but not every nut and bolt in PE's history, this is agood place to start.
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I'm astonished by Pacific Electric's complexity and comprehensiveness of passenger and freight services. My only regret is that I never rode on it. I was born too late! A book that every railfan cannot miss.
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Like many other cities in the United States, Los Angeles began rail-borne transit first with horse cars in 1874, then with cable cars, and then with electrically propelled streetcars running from downtown to residential neighborhoods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Like many other cities in the United States, Los Angeles began rail-borne transit first with horse cars in 1874, then with cable cars, and then with electrically propelled streetcars running from downtown to residential neighborhoods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Courtesy Metro Library, Courtesy Craig Rasmussen Collection, Los Angeles, Red Car, World War, Southern Pacific, San Bernardino, San Pedro, Hill Street, Courtesy Jim Walker, Pacific Electric, Santa Ana, Long Beach, Southern District, San Fernando Valley, Sixth Street, Northern District, Hollywood Freeway, Jim Walker Collection, Main Street, Rose Parade, Southern California, West Hollywood, Aliso Street, Newport Beach Browse Sample Pages:
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