Descriptive Summary
Access
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Pacific Electric Railway records
Dates: 1907-1962
Collection Number: MS 140
Creator/Collector:
Pacific Electric Railway
Extent: 5 volumes
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: Includes operating agreements, executive committee resolutions, and accounting records for Pacific Electric Railway of 1901
and Pacific Electric Railway of 1911.
Language of Material: English
Access
This collection is open for research at our off-site storage facility with one week's notice. Contact Library & Archives
staff to arrange for access.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Capital District Collections Manager. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the CSRM as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright
holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
Pacific Electric Railway records. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Acquisition Information
Operating agreements from Southern Pacific Transportation Company (San Francisco), Brannan Street. Accounting department records
from The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, except Journal A, from the Southern Pacific Transportation
Company, San Francisco, Brannan St. Warehouse.
Biography/Administrative History
he first Pacific Electric Railway Company was incorporated in 1901. It included 186 miles of track. It was consolidated
with seven other railroads and incorporated on September 1, 1911, as a new Pacific Electric, owned and operated by Southern
Pacific Company until August 1965, when it merged into Southern Pacific Company . In 1939, it included 1,068.96 miles of
track and operated in Los Angeles, Orange County, and Riverside County [Donald B. Robertson, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WESTERN RAILROAD
HISTORY, Volume 4: California. Caldwell, Idaho: (Caxton Printers), pp. 178-179]
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection is divided in three series:
•1 OPERATING AGREEMENTS
•2 EXECUTIVE COMMITEE RESOLUTIONS
•3 ACCOUNTING
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