Pacific Electric Red Cars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pacific Electric Red Cars write by Jim Walker. This book was released on 2006. Pacific Electric Red Cars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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."
Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars
Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars write by Jim Walker. This book was released on 2007. Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Huntington Tracks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Huntington Tracks write by Paul A. Smedley. This book was released on 2018. Huntington Tracks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Red Car Days
Red Car Days - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Red Car Days write by Raphael F. Long. This book was released on 1983. Red Car Days available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Railtown
Railtown - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Railtown write by Ethan N. Elkind. This book was released on 2014-01-22. Railtown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
