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."

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.

Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars

Author: Jim Walker
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738547916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
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.

Huntington Tracks

Author: Paul A. Smedley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870951299
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description

Red Trains in the East Bay

Author: Robert S. Ford
Publisher: Interurban Press
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 366

Book Description

Baseball in Orange County

Author: Chris Epting
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738593281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
The history of baseball in Orange County, Calif., from its beginnings among oil well workers in the late 1880s to the present day.

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).

Railtown

Author: Ethan N. Elkind
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520278275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling. Traffic, air pollution, and sprawl motivated citizens to support urban rail as an alternative to driving, and the city has started to reinvent itself by developing compact neighborhoods adjacent to transit. As a result of pressure from local leaders, particularly with the election of Tom Bradley as mayor in 1973, the Los Angeles Metro Rail gradually took shape in the consummate car city. Railtown presents the history of this system by drawing on archival documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with many of the key players to provide critical behind-the-scenes accounts of the people and forces that shaped the system. Ethan Elkind brings this important story to life by showing how ambitious local leaders zealously advocated for rail transit and ultimately persuaded an ambivalent electorate and federal leaders to support their vision. Although Metro Rail is growing in ridership and political importance, with expansions in the pipeline, Elkind argues that local leaders will need to reform the rail planning and implementation process to avoid repeating past mistakes and to ensure that Metro Rail supports a burgeoning demand for transit-oriented neighborhoods in Los Angeles. This engaging history of Metro Rail provides lessons for how the American car-dominated cities of today can reinvent themselves as thriving railtowns of tomorrow.

Mount Lowe

Author: Michael A. Patris
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738581231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Tucked away in Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains, the Mount Lowe Railway was an internationally renowned tourist destination, serving nearly four million passengers between 1893 and 1936. Few riders of "The Railway to the Clouds" are around to relate their experiences now, but postcards and photographs remarkably reflect the history of this amazing attraction. Virtually nothing of the once-famous landmark remains on the mountain today, except a few timeworn foundations and part of the original right-of-way, which has become a hiking trail into the Angeles National Forest.

Interurban Railways of the Bay Area

Author: Paul Castelhun Trimble
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Fascinating history of the numerous electric street railways (interurbans) that once criss-crossed northern California and the San Francisco Bay area. Covers the Interurban Electric Railway (the Big Red Cars), the Key System, the Market Street Railway, the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, the Peninsular Railway, the Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railroad, the Sacramento Northern, and the San Francisco, Napa & Calistoga Railway. There is a roster and map for each railroad line. The book also discusses the Bay area ferry lines (with rosters), smaller streetcar lines, and the "what ifs?" represented by BART. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With list of car builders and ferryboat builders. 199 pages with index.