Pacific Electric Railway

Pacific Electric Railway

Author: Steve Crise

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780738575865

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The Pacific Electric Railway originally provided reliable transportation across more than 1,000 miles of track. Postwar society's affair with the automobile led to the loss of an infrastructure that could have formed the basis for an enviable modern light-rail system, one that current society would be happy to utilize. Authors Steve Crise and Michael Patris look back at the railway and its landscape today. Both serve on the board of the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society, from whose archives most of these images are taken.


Railroads and Depots of Orange County

Railroads and Depots of Orange County

Author: Rob Richardson

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738580111

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Railroads have been a part of Orange County for over 130 years. The great names of American railroading--Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe; Southern Pacific; and Union Pacific--were firmly planted here by the early 1920s and linked with the largest interurban rail system in the United States, the famed Pacific Electric Railway. Thousands of people passed through Orange County's depots during the 1940s as they came to serve at the many military bases located here during World War II. The names have since changed, and yet the county's rail scene remains as dynamic as ever, with Amtrak, Metrolink, and amusement park railroads joining the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific. Railroad depots, new and old, are located across Orange County and continue on both as vital parts of history and the future of transportation for America's fifth most populated county.


Corcoran Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art

Publisher: Lucia Marquand

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781555953614

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This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.


Who's who

Who's who

Author: Henry Robert Addison

Publisher:

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 3412

ISBN-13:

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An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."