Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars (CA) (Images of Rail)
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (674 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0738547913 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A founder of the Orange Empire Railway Museum at Perris, California, Walker is the archivist/historian of Metro’s library. The main sources of these vintage images are the Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the collections of Craig Rasmussen
Aaron J. Pierce said LA Railway was really well done. Jim Walker has been covering the history of LA Railway in many books. This is just one of them and it is excellent. The material was fresh and well presented and the material selected seemed perfect. Kuddos for a job well done.. Ronald G. Wilson said LA Railways. Excellent book. Well written. Offers a brief but informative history of this street car system. Book has a lot of photos that I haven't seem before. Great buy!. "Enjoyable!" according to Sparky. We have quite a collection of these "Images of America" books and always enjoy the old photos and history. Brought back memories of riding it as a kid. Never a disappointment.
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. 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.. “Yellow Cars” describes the principal local transit system in and around Los Angeles in the first half of the 20th century. Local rail-borne transit in Los Angeles began with horsecars in 1874, evolving with cable-powered and later electric-powered passenger vehicles. Rail tycoon Henry Edwards Huntington consolidated several independent lines into this great interurban empire
A founder of the Orange Empire Railway Museum at Perris, California, Walker is the archivist/historian of Metro’s library. About the Author The main sources of these vintage images are the Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the collections of Craig Rasmussen and author Jim Walker, who has written or edited more than 40 railway books.