Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Pacific Electric Railway scrapbook
- Dates:
- 1911-1955
- Creators:
- Pacific Electric Railway
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- 1 album
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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Pacific Electric Railway scrapbook. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Background
- Scope and content:
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This album contains images of Pacific Electric interurban cars in operation on various lines and in various yards awaiting assignment. All classes of passenger cars appear to be represented in this album. The photos are glued onto slightly larger framing paper (dark red) that forms a colored border around each shot. The left side page includes neatly typed captions for each photo that are also glued onto the album pages. The last several pages of the album contain fifteen individual line timetable folders that are held in place by corner ears and can be removed for reference. Most of these folders are dated in the early 1950s and some were actually issued by Metropolitan Coach Lines, a company that bought Pacific Electric's passenger service in 1953. [Album 101]
- Biographical / historical:
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The 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.
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 1911-1955
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:54 p.m.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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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.
- Terms of access:
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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 CSRM Librarian. 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:
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Pacific Electric Railway scrapbook. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
- Location of this collection:
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111 I StreetSacramento, CA 95814, US
- Contact:
- (916) 323-8073