Ride the Big Red Cars: The Pacific Electric Story - Hardcover

Spencer Crump

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870460471 ISBN 13: 9780870460470

Publisher: Trans-Anglo Books, 1983

Synopsis

Dust jacket notes: "'Ride the Big Red Cars' takes its name from the famous slogan of the Pacific Electric, whose comfortable and speedy interurbans linked Southern California's mountains, beaches, orange groves, and cities for more than half a century. The P.E., at its peak, had 1.164 miles of track and operated 6,000 scheduled cars daily. The Pacific Electric boasted that it was the 'world's greatest electric railway,' and it provided rapid transit in an era when autos were primitive and there were few roads. The 75,000-word text is supplemented by more than 200 beautifully-reproduced photographs and maps which nostalgically show Southern California's earlier days, making the book one that you can look at as well as read...."

About this edition

• Publisher: Trans-Anglo Books
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0870460471
• ISBN 13: 9780870460470
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 256