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WPLives 14th Oct 2021		Book Phillips C. Kauke - The Visalia Electric Railroad	Table of Contents: Dedication-------------------------------------------5 Foreword---------------------------------------------7 Acknowledgements----------------------------8 Introduction---------------------------------------10 1. Early Railroad Developments--------13 2. Railway Construction Begins---------19 3. The Electric Railway is Energized--35 4. Heyday of the Orange Grove Route--45 5. Competition and the Strathmore Branch-71 6. Farewell to the Orange Cars----------79 7. Chowchilla, San Jose & Fresno-----85 8. Freight Operations Under Wire------89 9. A New Breed of Horses---------------111 10. Twilight on the Orange Grove----127 Rosters--------------------------------------------151 Bibliography------------------------------------160 Index-----------------------------------------------161
WPLives 11th Oct 2021		Book James N. Spencer - Remembrances Of The Pacific Electric	From early childhood trips on the P.E., Railroad Boosters fan trips, riding a three-car train from Hollywood Boulevard and Vermont Avenue to the Rose Parade and rail fanning around the system during and after World War II, Jim Spencer recounts them all in his own unique style. 44 pages and 33 photographs and index. Oral History Series #1
WPLives 11th Oct 2021		Book Harvey S. Laner - Remembrances Of The Pacific Electric Railway	Welcome to the Harvey S. Laner monograph from the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society. 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. Join us as Harvey recounts his earliest childhood memories of the Chicago El, North Shore and South Shore trains before his move to Los Angeles in 1953. From there, you’ll be a part of his Los Angeles railfanning adventures, plus preservation at Travel Town and the founding of OERM in Perris, California. Supplemented by rarely-seen images of Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railway - LATL equipment being saved and preserved, plus 8mm film images shot by Harvey in the 1950s and 1960s. It’s a must-have for PE and LARy fans everywhere.
WPLives 11th Oct 2021		Book Fred Hust - Remembrances Of The Pacific Electric	Fred Hust's interest in the P.E. started when he was about 3 years old and continued throughout his life. Fred was fortunate enough to grow up in the area of Vineyard Junction, the busiest interurban junction of the P.E.'s Western District, at a time when the P.E. was still near its peak. He starts his colorful narrative with his childhood experiences at Vineyard and riding various P.E. lines. He goes on to describe both his adult activities as a P.E. commuter and as a rail fan from the late 1930s to the very early 1950s. A keen photographer from early on, his photographs provide most of the illustrations used in this monograph. 60 pages, 52 photographs, one drawing, Venice Short Line map, and index. Oral History Series #6
WPLives 11th Oct 2021		Book Walter Abbenseth - Remembrances Of The Pacific Electric	A former employee of the Pacific Electric Railway, the late Walter Abbenseth was also well known to the Southern California rail fan community both for his efforts to save and preserve P.E. equipment and his generosity in sharing his extensive collection of photographs, slides, movies and videos. (Which now reside in the Orange Empire Railway Museum) This monograph covers his experiences and observations of the P.E. while growing up in Echo Park and South Central districts of Los Angeles, his employment by the P.E., and rail fan activities. The span of this monograph is roughly from the late Great Depression years to 1965. 60 pages, 52 photographs, Echo Park Avenue Line map, and index. Oral History Series #5
WPLives 11th Oct 2021		Book Bill Arnold - Remembrances Of The Pacific Electric	Known to his friends as "Der Fliegender Hollander" (The Flying Dutchman) because he didn't seem to have a home and could always be seen riding the Pacific Electric, Bill Arnold still found time to work for the P.E., raise a family, as well as doing a lot of rail fanning. The remembrances of his years with the P.E. and his escapades are peppered with anecdotes and personal comments about the times in which they occurred. 60 pages, 53 photographs, map of the Santa Monica Air Line, and index. Oral History Series #4
WPLives 11th Oct 2021		Book Robert B. Petersen - Redondo Beach And The Pacific Electric	A native of Redondo Beach, with family members involved with the Main Street and Agricultural Park Railroad, LARY, LATL, LAMTA, SCRTD, and MTA, and living through the demise and rebirth of electric traction in Los Angeles, Robert B. Petersen brings a unique perspective not only to the rail history to Redondo Beach, but also the history of the Pacific Electric. Bob, as he is known to his friends, also related eye-witness accounts of some very unusual practices and events in the operation of the Pacific Electric. 60 pages, 38 photographs, 4 maps and index. Oral history series #3
WPLives 11th Oct 2021		Book Various Authors - The Pacific Electric Goes To War Volume 1 Moving The Freight	Containing an economic analysis of Pacific Electric operations up to World War II, a photo essay, "Steam to the Rescue" covering the extensive use of steam power by the P.E. during the war, including rare scenes of San Diego and Arizona Eastern #27 in action, and a reproduction of the 20 page P.E. special instructions to Employees Relating to Air Raid Precautions, Air Raid Alarms and Blackouts, Effective June 1, 1944. 68 pages with map, 68 photographs, the vast majority of which have never been published before, and index.
WPLives 8th Oct 2021		Book Alan K. Weeks - Remembrances Of The Pacific Electric Railway	The Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society, in association with Golden West Books, is pleased to announce the first-time-ever publication of Monograph No. 9, Alan K. Weeks “Remembrances of the Pacific Electric Railway.” This all-new volume continues on the pioneering work by late PERHYS founder Jack Finn, who studiously and meticulously interviewed dozens of Pacific Electric employees, railfans, photographers, historians and more before his death in July of 2006. Jack interviewed Alan extensively, and worked with him to select key images from his amazing collection of PE and Los Angeles Railway photographs. This volume features Alan’s entertaining recollections of riding the PE and LA Railways, his stunning photography, and many inside stories never before told. As we embark on a new chapter of Monographs, we hope you will purchase “Remembrances of the Pacific Electric Railway” by Alan K. Weeks.
WPLives 8th Oct 2021		Book John L. Whitmeyer - Remembrances Of The Pacific Electric Railway	The Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society, in association with Golden West Books, is pleased to announce the first reissue publication of Monograph No. 2, John L. “Jack” Whitmeyer’s “Remembrances of the Pacific Electric Railway.” This completely revamped volume continues on the pioneering work by late PERHYS founder Jack Finn, who studiously and meticulously interviewed dozens of Pacific Electric employees, railfans, photographers, historians and more before his death in July of 2006. Jack interviewed Jack in 1998 and compiled a great collection of images and hand-drawn maps by Jack to publish the original volume. We have augmented the original work with more than 100 images, many drawn exclusively from the legendary Craig Rasmussen Collection – and Craig served as the image supervisor on this reissue. This volume focuses on Jack’s early years in the Eastern District, growing up in Riverside-Arlington, and his experiences before and after the war with the Pacific Electric, including a chapter on RPO service between Los Angeles and San Bernardino. “Remembrances of the Pacific Electric” by Jack Whitmeyer is a must-have addition to any important Pacific Electric Library. Oral History Series #2
WPLives 6th Oct 2021		Book Guy L. Dunscomb - A Century Of Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives	Review Review "this book captures not only the changes in American steam locomotive development, but also the why that it happened. And that makes it worth reading" ----The Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society--- ✔︎ Helpful Review?
WPLives 6th Oct 2021		Book Guy L. Dunscomb - A Century Of Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives	Century of Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives by Guy L Dunscomb with dust jacket. Includes map supplement and amplifications/additions adn corrections Copyright 1963 THIRD EDITION first printing 1984 480 pages Section One-----------------------19-362 Steam locomotive photographs Section Two--------------------363-433 Corporate history Section Three-------------------Miscellaneous Electric cars, McKeen Cars, Gas Electric cars, more photos, etc. 800 illustrations, 2 color plates, 18 division maps. The historic Southern Pacific, the road whose rails extend from the Pacific Ocean to the Great Salt Lake, and from the forests of Oregon to the Mississippi has operated or controlled over 16,000 miles of railroad. It operated in eight states and the Republic of Mexico; it had the longest north-south route of any railroad on the North American continent; it operated nearly a thousand miles of electric lines, and over a thousand miles of narrow gauge lines, San Francisco Bay and Mississippi River ferry boats, Sacramento and Colorado River steamers, and oceangoing steamships, and now operates, in addition to its rail properties, fourteen hundred miles of pipe lines and twenty-five thousand miles of truck lines. It was in February, 1863, that active construction started at Sacramento on the SP's parent Central Pacific, and was carried on under the management of the famed "Big Four," Huntington, Hopkins, Crocker, and Stanford, until a connection was made with the Union Pacific at Promontory, Utah, in May, 1869. Since that date nearly three hundred railroad organizations have been consolidated to form what is known today as the Southern Pacific Company, and over four thousand steam locomotives have appeared on the scene, and have now forever departed. It is of these locomotives and companies that this book is written, for of all that has previously appeared in print, nothing has presented the pictorial coverage of the steam locomotives that is found here, nor has there ever before been a systematic listing of all the companies, well-known and obscure, that took their place in the forming of the west's largest transportation system. Included as a supplement to the book is a set of eighteen maps covering the SP empire when it was at its greatest, and by the use of these maps and the text in the book, the reader may trace the development of practically every mile of railroad now or previously under Southern Pacific control.
WPLives 6th Oct 2021		Book Guy L. Dunscomb - A Century Of Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives	158 pages plus 6 unnumbered pages of detail photos. Illustrated by photographs including a color plate at page xii by M.F. Kotowski (also used for jacket art), engineering diagrams and schematics. An excellent book which includes interesting text on robberies, accidents, technical information and pictures of all 60 of these oddly configured 3-cylinder behemoths used in the US. Description Between 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time--enormous engines that powered an industry of colossal scale and intensity. They were deceptively simple machines yet even as the technology was being perfected it was becoming obscure (and obsolete.) Despite immense and sustained effort, they remained grossly inefficient in their use of increasingly costly fuel and labor. In the end, they baffled their masters and, as soon as diesel-electric technology provided an alternative, the steam locomotive disappeared from American railroads. Drawing on the work of eminent engineers and railroad managers of the day, this lavishly illustrated history chronicles the challenges, triumphs and failures of steam locomotive development and operation. CONTENTS PREFACE Page The Southern Pacific Company--5 The Steam Locomotives----------10 Section 1 -- STEAM LOCOMOTIVE PHOTOGRAPHS American (4-4-0)----------------------19 Switcher (0-6-0)------------------------77 Switcher (0-8-0)------------------------91 Mogul (2-6-0)----------------------------95 Prairie (2-6-2)--------------------------115 Ten Wheel (4-6-0)-------------------121 Pacific (4-6-2)-------------------------163 Consolidation (2-8-0)-------------181 Twelve Wheel (4-8-0)--------------205 El Gobernador (4-10-0)-----------225 Atlantic (4-4-2)------------------------227 Mikado (2-8-2)------------------------243 Berkshire (2-8-4)---------------------253 Santa Fe (2-10-2)--------------------257 Decapod (2-10-0)--------------------263 Articulateds (Various)------------265 Mountain (4-8-2)--------------------289 General Service (4-8-4)-----------301 Southern Pacific (4-10-2)-------319 Miscellaneous (Various)--------323 Narrow Gauge (Various)--------349 SECTION 2 -- CORPORATE HISTORY General-----------------------------------363 Pacific Lines---------------------------364 Texas and Louisiana Lines----422 SECTION 3 -- MISCELLANEOUS Electric Cars---------------------------434 McKeen Cars--------------------------443 Gas Electric Cars--------------------446 Miscellaneous Pictures----------448 Significant Dates--------------------463 List of Companies------------------475 Last Minute Developments------------------------478 Personal Remarks------------------479 Finis----------------------------------------480
WPLives 29th Sep 2021		Book Jeff Ainsworth - Pacific Electric Volume 4	8×11 horizontal paperback, 74 pages, heavy coated stock, full page roster and action photos, index, color and b/w, maps. 2018. LA --- Glendora: South Pasadena, Pasadena, Sierra Madre, Monrovia to Glendora. Southern Pacific's Southen California Electric System. Many types of trolleys: the 300s, 450s, 600s, 10s, 11s, 12s, freight motors.
WPLives 29th Sep 2021		Book Jeff Ainsworth - Pacific Electric Volume 6	8×11 horizontal paperback, 74 pages, heavy coated stock, full page roster and action photos, index, color and b/w, maps. 2020. On this journey, we are taking another trip eastward from Los Angeles to the San Bernardino---Riverside---Redlands area of Southern California --- known locally as The Inland Empire. We begin at Pacific Electric’s Box Motor terminal adjacent to LA's Central Station. This is where PE's box motor fleet picks up and drops off mail and other freight that was delivered to or picked up from points all across PE’s system. A full Index and two color-keyed maps showing the lines as they existed in the 1920s to about 1950.
WPLives 29th Sep 2021		Magazine Model Railroad Planning	In Model Railroad Planning 2008 you’ll get essential planning information and tips to create a new layout and information you can use to make your current layout even better! Dozens of color photos and advice from experienced modelers. Solutions to many problems! Keeping train lengths and engine types in mind as you design your model railroad; integrating small layouts into bigger ones; exploring over and under crossings; and more. Sample feature lineup: Plan for an almost-prototype railroad; how do I uncouple cars way over there?; steel mill in 4×8; full-size N scale layout mock-up; German railroad in a bedroom; and in defense of the helix. PLUS: Includes a bonus booklet!
WPLives 29th Sep 2021		Magazine Model Railroad Planning	Great examples of track plans in HO, O, On2½, and N scale fill the pages of Model Railroad Planning 2009. Ideas for having more railroad in less space, how to avoid the top 10 planning mistakes, and other expert design tips are included. Each copy also includes a free bonus planning booklet!
WPLives 29th Sep 2021		Magazine Model Railroad Planning	• Track plans • Design ideas • Expert advice Model Railroad Planning 2010 features expert tips, design ideas, great photography, and other helpful information and guidance so you can build your best model railroad. Get all of this, plus: • Plan a layout to fit your available space; • Make the most of a small scale’s potential; • Learn to avoid 10 common layout mistakes; • And more FREE layout planning booklet included!
WPLives 29th Sep 2021		Magazine Model Railroad Planning	Use the innovative design ideas in Model Railroad Planning 2012 to get your layout plans off to a great start! Discover 11 buildable HO, N, and O scale track plans, practical advice, construction tips, and inspiring features that include: * Andy Sperandeo’s multi-level 40’ square Santa Fe main line over torturous Cajon Pass * New techniques for planning trackside structures using digital photos * A novel double-mushroom design modeling the spectacular Canadian Pacific in British Columbia * Achieving greater visual depth and space with open-sided structures Model Railroad Planning 2012 also includes an exclusive BONUS PLANNING BOOKLET!
WPLives 29th Sep 2021		Magazine Model Railroad Planning	Get 12 ALL-NEW Track Plans in Model Railroad Planning 2013! If you're looking for workable solutions for tricky track plan challenges, or would like innovative ideas for your model railroad layout, Model Railroad Planning 2013 is for you. In this inspiring issue you'll discover: � Fresh ideas for N, HO, O and Large scale railroads; � Scenic techniques for disguising turnback curves; � 10 ways to wye; � How to model a modern short line; � And much more! This issue includes a BONUS DESIGN BOOKLET Workshop tips: 6 Award Winning Track Plans. This booklet features designs for city and country layouts, main lines and branch lines, tips to help fit more railroading into minimum space, and operational details for each track plan. A Model Railroader special issue.
WPLives 29th Sep 2021		Magazine Rail Classics	November 1973 issue of Rail Classics. With articles on: ● train watching in Chicago, ● the last of Trona's Baldwins, ● narrow gauge in El Salvador, ● Amtrak at 2, ● BART's triumphs and troubles, ● SP's new hump engines, ● and steam on the Delaware & Hudson. Illustrated throughout with black and white and some color photos. 82 pages.
WPLives 29th Sep 2021		Magazine Rail Classics	First issue of Rail Classics magazine. With articles on: ● logging railroads in Virginia and North Carolina, ● the Milwaukee Road's electric locomotives in the Bitterroot Mountains, ● the Santa Fe's San Bernardino local, ● the Southern's steam excursions, ● the return of steam on the Cumbres & Toltec, ● the ALCO PA, ● Ira L. Swett on the Tampa (FL) Electric Co.'s Birney trolleys (with roster), ● and railroad wrecking cranes plus book reviews. Illustrated with a mix of black and white and color photos. 82 pages.
WPLives 29th Sep 2021		Magazine Model Railroad Planning 2018	Model Railroad Planning 2018 will inform and inspire you whether you're a beginner or an experienced modeler. Model Railroad Planning 2018 is back with more creative solutions for modeling your best layout yet. From the publisher of Model Railroader magazine, the 100-page special issue features 15 all-new layout stories in HO, N, and O scale. Learn scenery tricks, track planning, yard construction, and more, from top experts in the field. Featured Stories Include: Cover story: ● Doug Tagsold models the narrow gauge lines of the Colorado & Southern with a twist; ● Neil Schofield describes the steps he used to model a sprawling furniture plant in an alcove; ● Model Railroad Planning editor Tony Koester shares more than a dozen things to avoid; ● Paul Dolkos discusses various topics regarding layout height; ● Veteran HO modeler David Barrow builds an O scale switching layout; ● Byron Henderson is back with a double-deck design; ● And much more!
WPLives 29th Sep 2021		Magazine Pullman America's Hotel On Wheels	Pullman: America’s Hotel on Wheels covers great Pullman trains, first-person recollections from employees and passengers, how Pullman routed its cars, the various types of accommodations, and much more! This 108-page special issue from Classic Trains features the luxury and excellence of Pullman trains. These compelling stories will take you back to the era of train travel at its best! They include first-person recollections of Pullman employees and passengers, how Pullman routed its cars, and the various types of Pullman cars and accommodations. This special edition features a variety of stories, including: ••• To Los Angeles on the Chief, by Frank P. Donovan Jr.; ••• Empire of Hospitality, by Joe Welsh; ••• Pullman — from the Peak of Troop Travel to the Impact of the Jet, by William Moedinger; ••• Tales of the Century, by Harry Lee Stuart; ••• Birth of the Broadway, by Frederick Westing; ••• And more!
WPLives 29th Sep 2021		Magazine Great Train Stations	Go inside passenger terminals in the golden age of rail travel with this special issue from Classic Trains magazine. Great Train Stations, a special issue from Classic Trains, explores the enduring beauty of big city train stations from railroading’s golden age. Featured stations include: • Grand Central Terminal: New York Central’s Gotham landmark also hosted New Haven trains; • Washington Union Station: Trains of the Pennsylvania, B&O, Southern, Atlantic Coast Line, and Seaboard converged at the gateway to the nation’s capital; • Chicago’s Stations: Gates to Anywhere: Union, Dearborn, Central, La Salle Street, North Western, and Grand Central provided access to all points on the compass; • Los Angeles Union Station: Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, and Union Pacific trains served L.A.’s Mission-style masterpiece; • Cincinnati Union Terminal: David P. Morgan’s heartfelt tribute to a great station, and one of America’s outstanding Art Deco buildings; • And more! Includes maps, floor plans, and rare color photos!
WPLives 29th Sep 2021		Magazine Steam Glory 2	Relive the Great Days of Steam! Take a trip back to the great days of railroading with Steam Glory 2! From the majestic giants to lovable little engines, the full range of steam locomotives is covered in Steam Glory 2. This celebration of the steam era in North America brings you a gallery of steam locomotive art, over 100 photos of steam at work, inside accounts from the men who worked the rails, in-depth looks at locomotive classes, and much more!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine Railroads And World War II	This is a collector's item that includes rare COLOR photos of railroading of the era.
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine Fast Trains In The Golden Years Of Railroading	Railroads and the need for speed. Fast Trains explores motive power, signaling systems, marketing, and passenger and freight service. First-hand accounts of high-speed runs will put you in the center of the action. This 116-page, oversized edition is packed with dramatic photos and compelling articles such as: --- High-Stepping Hudsons – The 4-6-4 was the ultimate steam speedster on many roads. --- Running Santa Fe’s Super C – An engineer recalls his time on America’s hottest freight. --- Coast-to-Coast Speed Record – A UP streamliner’s cross-country dash has never been equaled. --- Banana Trains of Mid- America – Illinois Central rushed fruit trains from New Orleans to Chicago. --- And much more!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine Dream Trains 2	Dream Trains II explores the exciting decade after World War II when the railroads introduced fleets of colorful new streamliners. Thanks to hundreds of new cars and locomotives, operating on fast and frequent schedules, American rail passenger service had never been better. Highway and airline competition put an end to this golden age of travel, but it comes alive again in Dream Trains II. Explore the last heroic attempt by railroads to win back passenger business through insightful stories and features such as: ••• City of St. Louis – One UP streamliner’s niche in the postwar passenger scene; ••• The California Zephyr – Why “America’s most talked-about train” had to die; ••• Twin-engine Racehorses– A hogger recalls running EMD’s ultimate passenger diesel, the E unit; ••• Photo Gallery – Dazzling images of streamliners from the Dream Trains era; ••• And much more
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine Working On The Railroad	Get an up-close perspective with this rich compilation of first-hand accounts from railroaders in the age of steam and early diesels… Working on the Railroad. With this special collector’s issue, you’ll feel like you’re on the job with the people who kept the trains rolling day and night, winter and summer, from coast to coast. Share the thrills, frustration, camaraderie, humor, and even terror of life on the front lines of America’s most dynamic and romantic industry. The railroad experience truly comes alive in Working on the Railroad.

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