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Author:	Ira L. Swett
Title:	Official Car Records, Pacific Electric Railway Co.
Publisher:	Interurban Press
Country:	USA
Date:	Nov 1964
Format:	Paperback
Class Number:	388.4
Genre:	Transport
Total Editions:	2
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	3 Own
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Special 38
64 pages, 1500 copies printed

Abstract: The Pacific Electric Railway Company, established by Henry Huntington, connected cities across the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The records in this collection consist of information about rules and regulations governing employees, timetables and vehicle information, financial, operation, and service reports, as well as contracts and agreements made during the sale of Pacific Electric Railway Company property and stock to Metropolitan Coach Lines.

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Pacific Electric Railway (PERy) was created in 1901 with Henry Edwards Huntington as principal stockholder. Huntington completed the first PE line in 1902 which ran from Los Angeles to Long Beach. He later sold his shares to Southern Pacific in 1910.
In 1911 the “Great Merger” took place. Although continuing to operate under the Pacific Electric name, Southern Pacific Railway merged PERy with nearly all of the interurban railways in a four-county region of Southern California. PERy grew to connect various cities across the Los Angeles metropolitan area. PERy vehicles were commonly known as the Red Cars, the most obvious feature distinguishing PERy cars from the "Yellow Car" vehicles operated by the Los Angeles Railway.
As patronage on passenger rail lines declined after the second World War, PERy began converting rail routes to bus service. Eventually, in 1953, PERy sold its passenger operations to the Metropolitan Coach Lines. Metropolitan Coach Lines continued the conversion from rail passenger service to bus passenger service and the final former Pacific Electric Railway passenger rail line was converted to bus service in 1961. Southern Pacific Railway eventually abolished the Pacific Electric Railway Company in 1965, folding what little mileage remained of PERy’s freight operation into Southern Pacific’s own operation..

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WPLives 8th Aug 2021		FRONT COVER PHOTO: Interurban car 890 rumbles south through Redondo Beach toward its terminus at the tiny yard at Clifton. The date is December 10, 1939---and the palm trees and the morning mist paint a nostalgic backdrop for a noble car. (JAH-HFS)



WPLives 28th Jul 2021		Interurbans Special 38 is a supplement to "Cars of Pacific Electric" (Specials 28, 36 and 37). Reprints the official statements of car ownership issued by Pacific Electric for each class of car since its inception in 1910 through 1944. Also includes Xeroxed numerical lists of car numbers (Old Series) with corresponding new numbers. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. 64 pages.

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