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| Author | : Harvey S. Laner |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2018-03-06 |
| Genre | : Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| ISBN | : 9781986272421 |
"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).
| Author | : Steve Crise |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 9780738575865 |
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 | : James N. Spenser |
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| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 1998 |
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| Author | : James N. Spencer |
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| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 1998 |
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| Author | : Jim Walker |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738546889 |
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 | : John L. Whitmeyer |
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| Total Pages | : 56 |
| Release | : 1999 |
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| Author | : John Heller |
| Publisher | : Electric Railway Historical Assoc |
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| Release | : 2005 |
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| ISBN | : 9780966430455 |
| Author | : John L. Whitmeyer |
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| Total Pages | : 56 |
| Release | : 1999 |
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| Author | : Richard Martin Thompson |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0738596175 |
At the end of the 19th century, Portland led the nation in the development of interurban electric railways. The city became the hub of an electric rail network that spread throughout the Willamette Valley. This is the story of the pioneering local railways that started it all as they built south along the Willamette River to Oregon City and east to Estacada and Bull Run in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. More than 200 historic images illustrate Portland's Interurban Railway from its rudimentary beginnings through the peak years, when passengers rode aboard the finest examples of the car builders' art, to the sudden end in 1958.
