Mount Lowe
Southern California’s Mount Lowe Railway, for nearly 40 years, lived up to its title “The Most Scenic...
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The Golden State of California was once a beehive of interurban electric railways, and the interurban played a...
more infoPacific Electric Railway Volume 4 Western District
Henry Huntington’s impact on the public transportation system of Southern California was far reaching. His...
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People rode the “Red Cars” in great numbers. It was faster than a horse and buggy, or a bicycle, or...
more infoPacific Electric Railway Volume 2 Eastern District
In 1901, Southern California was so vast and its population so dispersed, that Henry Huntington believed the only...
more infoPacific Electric Railway Volume 1 Northern District
Southern California attained its modern configuration during the first half of the twentieth century. Its...
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