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Author:	Southern Pacific Historical And Technical Society
Title:	Rail Passenger Service History
Subtitle:	Pacific Electric Railway Company
Publisher:	Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society
Country:	USA
Date:	Dec 1995
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Transport, History, Reference
First Published:	1973
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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WPLives 19th Nov 2021		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.



WPLives 19th Nov 2021		Stated 2nd Printing December 1995

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