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Comment by WPLives:

A rare and wonderful selection of photographs of Western railroads including remarkable pix of Southern California's once-huge electric railroad, Pacific Electric, that took passengers from the San Fernando Valley across L. A. To Long Beach but was tubed by Detroit after the war.

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Comment by WPLives:

Featuring over 90 railroads with equipment shown, this 224-page book includes 200+ photos from the Ingles Color Classics series that were taken as he traveled to various cities and along different routes. They captured life as it was back then in rare color photograph form.


With each image you’ll find:

Scene details such as locomotives, trains, people, vehicles, signs, and structures.
Context around the time and events depicted in the photos.
A look back at early railroads and equipment including Baldwin, Alco, and Fairbanks-Morse
diesels, EMD E and F units, and the first big GE road diesels.