Pacific Electric Red Cars

Author : Jim Walker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0738546887

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Pacific Electric Red Cars by Jim Walker Pdf

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 : Spencer Crump
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Local transit
ISBN : UOM:39015006398757

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Ride the Big Red Cars by Spencer Crump Pdf

Author : Spencer Crump
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258483025

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Ride the Big Red Cars by Spencer Crump Pdf

Author : Steve Crise,Michael A. Patris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0738575860

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Pacific Electric Railway by Steve Crise,Michael A. Patris Pdf

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.

Author : David L. Garcia,Joseph A. Strapac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electric railroads
ISBN : 0984624767

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Pacific Electric Cars by David L. Garcia,Joseph A. Strapac Pdf

Author : Spencer Crump
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Transportation
ISBN : IND:30000111589366

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Henry Huntington and the Pacific Electric by Spencer Crump Pdf

Author : Jim Walker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0738547913

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Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars by Jim Walker Pdf

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 : Spencer Crump
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Local transit
ISBN : OCLC:13652198

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Ride the Big Red Cars by Spencer Crump Pdf

Author : Raphael F. Long
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1452844755

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Red Car Era an Album by Raphael F. Long Pdf

During the first six decades of the Twentieth Century, Southern California boasted a comprehensive network of suburban electrically powered trains and trolleys. Known as the Pacific Electric, it was the world's largest interurban electric system. In their bright red livery, the Red Cars went everywhere. Lines extended along the beaches from Balboa to Santa Monica Canyon; from the cool snow covered alpine heights of Mount Lowe to the hot dry sandy desert of the San Fernando Valley; and from Los Angeles to the rural orange groves of Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. At its peak, Pacific Electric operated 6,200 trains daily over 1,061 miles of track. Raphael Long was there at mid-century photographing the system during its final years under Pacific Electric management. Presented here are 230 images from Mr. Long's private collection. Red Car Era is filled with memories of a Southern California and Pacific Electric Railway that once was and will never be again.

Author : Laura L. Alioto
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 073852980X

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Seal Beach by Laura L. Alioto Pdf

Situated along the Pacific Coast Highway, Seal Beach is the coastal portal between Los Angeles and Orange Counties. This vacation spot and largely residential community separates the City of Long Beach from the broad, open, southerly beaches of the OC--Sunset, Bolsa Chica, Huntington, Newport, Laguna, and beyond. The regional fame of Anaheim Landing and Anaheim Bay preceded the founding of Bay City, which became Seal Beach after too much mail intended for Bay City found its way to the "City by the Bay," San Francisco. In the early 20th century, the popular Joy Zone was a huge beachside amusement park in Seal Beach enjoyed by thousands of vacationers brought south by the Pacific Electric Red Car Line. This entertaining retrospective documents these landmarks, as well as local residents, events, Seal Beach Pier, the nearby U.S. Naval Weapons Station, and other points of interest.

Author : Raphael F. Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015023125993

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Red Car Days by Raphael F. Long Pdf

Author : Robert S. Ford
Publisher : Interurban Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Transportation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011833683

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Red Trains in the East Bay by Robert S. Ford Pdf

Author : Paul A. Smedley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 0870951297

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Huntington Tracks by Paul A. Smedley Pdf

Author : Ethan N. Elkind
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520278271

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Railtown by Ethan N. Elkind Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electric railroads
ISBN : UCBK:C100895073

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Pacific Electric Railway by Anonim Pdf