Pacific Electric Stations
Title | Pacific Electric Stations PDF eBook |
Author | John Heller |
Publisher | Electric Railway Historicl Assn |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 1998-08-01 |
Genre | Electric railroads |
ISBN | 9780966430400 |
Pacific Electric Sub-Stations
Title | Pacific Electric Sub-Stations PDF eBook |
Author | John Heller |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2014-03-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780966430486 |
Second in a two part work covering all of the Pacific Electric Railways sub-station buildings.
Pacific Electric Substations
Title | Pacific Electric Substations PDF eBook |
Author | John Heller |
Publisher | Electric Railway Historical Assoc |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2014-03-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780966430479 |
First portion of a two volume set covering the architecture of the Pacific Electric Railway's electric sub-station buildings.
This is Pacific Electric
Title | This is Pacific Electric PDF eBook |
Author | Pacific Electric Railway Company |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 24 |
Release | 1944 |
Genre | Electric railroads |
ISBN |
Henry Huntington and the Pacific Electric
Title | Henry Huntington and the Pacific Electric PDF eBook |
Author | Spencer Crump |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 116 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN |
Pacific Electric Red Cars
Title | Pacific Electric Red Cars PDF eBook |
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."
Pacific Electric Railway
Title | Pacific Electric Railway PDF eBook |
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.