Sorry for any cross-posting. Recently have been doing some research into PE and components between 1890 and 1911. On several occasions, Clark and Sherman (Los...
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Andy Reichert
intelegence2002
Jul 1, 2004 11:07 pm
Funny you should mention this. I acquired a couple of models (HO) of the NS Electroliners, at a bargain sale. On my future PE layout, I was thinking of having...
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superdave_frevele
superdave_fr...
Jul 3, 2004 10:25 pm
Before anything else I want to commend David for his fantastic SP website. How I'd hate to have anything ever happen it or Richard Percy's. Great work, David!...
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superdave_frevele
superdave_fr...
Jul 3, 2004 10:47 pm
... I promise you Henry E. Huntington was definitely (and sincerely) the one pushing for Santa Barbara, both in the 1911 and 1901 Articles of Incorporation...
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superdave_frevele
superdave_fr...
Jul 3, 2004 11:22 pm
... E. H. Harriman would have really been powerful to reach beyond his grave of two years in 1911. I meant to say Harriman's interests....
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Christian Tobar
gatewaycityca
Jul 3, 2004 11:42 pm
Dave and others, Now I think I do remember reading something about "paper PE lines" in one of the Pacific Electric books...maybe in Ride The Big Red Cars,...
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Jim Griffin
griffhank
Jul 4, 2004 12:54 am
Didn't PE reach San Bern and Redlands? I thought Birneys 331 and 332 were Redlands PE cars before they went to Fox. R, JG ... ...
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Jim Griffin
griffhank
Jul 4, 2004 12:54 am
The bar to PE west of the SF Valley is that few people lived there or even wanted to until long after the growth period of interurbans. The trips from Santa ...
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Ray Long
srlargo@...
Jul 4, 2004 2:53 am
Yes, PE did reach San Bernardino and Redlands. However cars 331, 332 and 337 were assigned to Sherman/West Hollywood at the time of their sale to MGM in 1940....
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Christian Tobar
gatewaycityca
Jul 4, 2004 3:12 am
Jim, Oh yeah, PE definitely reached San Bernardino and Redlands...in fact it had quite a substatial hub at one time in SB. The PE's lines in San Bernardino...
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Jim Griffin
griffhank
Jul 4, 2004 8:43 am
I go to CSUSB, and have noticed the right of way at the north end of Electric Avenue and then up to the mountain - forgot the name of the street. Also, the PE...
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Christian Tobar
gatewaycityca
Jul 4, 2004 9:43 am
Hi Jim, You go to Cal State? You're right in my area then. I just live a couple of miles or so east from CSUSB, on 49th Street. I go to Valley College right...
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Dennismk1@...
dennismk12002
Jul 6, 2004 4:01 am
Good Evening, Everyone: It was 50 years ago when Los Angeles Transit Lines commenced track work on the new loop at Los Angeles City College. In keeping up...
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farwestinc@...
etbdude
Jul 6, 2004 4:44 am
Dennis, Your interesting news items are irreplaceable, but I must point out that City College in LA never had a loop. It was a wye. All the best, Paul Ward ...
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John Smatlak
jsmatlak
Jul 6, 2004 6:56 am
This email is our weekly update on operation, maintenance and restoration of the Orange Empire Railway Museum's collection of Los Angeles (and other) electric...
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Dick Shelley
rsshelley43
Jul 6, 2004 8:17 pm
This is very interesting, as when I was living and working near that very sight (nearly 40 years ago at 1st & Vermont), I seem to recall a wye at the city...
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Jim Griffin
griffhank
Jul 6, 2004 8:32 pm
I went to LACC from 1993 on... and on. The rails for a Wye are still there, on Monroe (I believe), west off VT, halfway between Melrose and Santa Monica, and ...
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Dick Shelley
rsshelley43
Jul 6, 2004 9:04 pm
Jim: You, I and Paul Ward seem to agree. The closest wye seems to be at 1st and Vermont. I worked at 1st and Vermont in the old California Bank Bldg (125 S....
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Jim Griffin
griffhank
Jul 6, 2004 9:48 pm
Loop, you mean - from the scars in the street I would guess that there had been a carbarn on Bimini (one block east of VT), but as I remember there was actual ...
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rbacon
rbaconus
Jul 6, 2004 10:18 pm
Speaking of that old bank building at 1st and Vermont... When I was at Virgil JH, 56/57, I sold newspapers on the NE corner for awhile. The bank building...
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farwestinc@...
etbdude
Jul 7, 2004 12:44 am
Dick, I don't know why everybody is so confused. Monroe & New Hampshire was a wye. First and Vermont was a loop. Paul [Non-text portions of this message have...
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Ken Harrison
sptrain98
Jul 7, 2004 1:13 am
... There was no loop at City College. There was no wye at 1st and Vermont. (That is not to say that during the time of the "H" line there might have been a...
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Ken Harrison
sptrain98
Jul 7, 2004 1:13 am
... Perhaps you are thinking of the Bimini Baths, a wonderful old Victoria-style building on Bimini between the two rights-of-way. Ken...
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Ken Harrison
sptrain98
Jul 7, 2004 1:13 am
When I went to Virgil (9/47-6/50), I don't remember a bank building but I do remember the studios across the street of Earl C. Anthony's radio (and television,...
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Dennismk1@...
dennismk12002
Jul 7, 2004 3:03 am
Good Evening, Everyone: It was 53 years ago when the remainders of the rail system of the San Diego Transit System were fast disappearing. All 3 steel...
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Dennismk1@...
dennismk12002
Jul 7, 2004 3:11 am
Good Evening, Everyone: It was 53 years ago during the last week of June when a San Francisco cable car was on diplay on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New...
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Harry Marnell
n6uru
Jul 7, 2004 6:08 am
Here's the photo, from the L.A. Public Library site... looks northeast from 2nd & Bimini; the slew of apt buildings are (still) on White House Place, and 1st...
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tennsurfr2002
Jul 7, 2004 3:49 pm
Earle C Anthony (Packard Distributor) owned KFI, at 141 N Vermont. Don Lee (Cadillac Distributor) owned KHJ, on Melrose - also at 1313 N Vine. When I worked...
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rbacon
rbaconus
Jul 7, 2004 4:46 pm
Steve, That darn Cloud Motel you mention, on Third St, has quite a checkered history. It was a favorite with travelling government employees, mostly State,...
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Erastus Church
churchb35
Jul 7, 2004 5:06 pm
Don Lee owned a string of radio stations, formed Don Lee Network on coast circa 1929, later affiliated with Columbia, then about 1936 became western branch of ...
