Pacific Electrics Big Red Cars
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Author | : Jim Walker |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738546889 |
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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 | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Local transit |
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Author | : Raphael F. Long |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Electric railroads |
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Author | : Spencer Crump |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Local transit |
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Author | : Paul A. Smedley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9780870951299 |
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Author | : Jim Walker |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738547916 |
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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 | : Ethan N. Elkind |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2014-01-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520278275 |
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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 | : Joseph A. Strapac |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Electric railroads |
ISBN | : 9781637957783 |
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A history of the electric interurban cars of the Southern Pacific Lines from 1911 through 1961.
Author | : James Billmaier |
Publisher | : Advantage Media Group |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Electric automobiles |
ISBN | : 159932220X |
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The author explains why he believes the electric vehicle is going to rise to the top of the personal automobile market, discusses the benefits of electric cars, and considers the possible role of the electric vehicle in the transformation of the United States from an oil-based to an electric-powered economy.
Author | : Simon Stålenhag |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2018-09-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1501181432 |
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NPR Best Books of 2018 A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.