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Lines of Pacific Electric Northern and Eastern Districts edited by Jim Walker (W-26A, 3A)

Gene Harmon — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:35:36 +0000

This 113 page softbound book was published by Interurban Press in 1976. It documents the PE Northern and Eastern Districts with B&W illustrations with innumerable maps and excellent captions. The book is in fine used condition with no marks or tears.

W-26A, 3A

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Lines of Pacific Electric Southern & Western Districts edited by Jim Walker (W-26A)

Gene Harmon — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:34:42 +0000

This 209 page softbound book was published by Interurban Press in 1975. It documents the PE Southern and Western Districts with B&W illustrations with inumerable maps and excellent captions. The book is in fine used condition with no marks or tears.

W-26A

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Red Trains in the East Bay by Robert S. Ford (W-26)

Gene Harmon — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:22:34 +0000

This 351 page book was published as Interurban Special 65 in 1977, a first printing, with an appendix and bibliography. It is the complete history of the Southern Pacific’s interurban services in the East Bay area adjacent to San Francisco Bay. It has an excellent fold-out map of all routes in operation in 1913. It includes ferry services and services over the Bay Bridge. This is a first printing from 1977. The book is in like-new condition with a paper jacket. (W-26)

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Ride the Big Red Cars by Spencer Crump (W 26)

Gene Harmon — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:08:52 +0000

This is the history of how Pacific Electric built Southern California. The 75,000 word text with more than 200 illustrations, maps, rosters and an index. This book was published by Trans-Anglo Books in 1962 (3rd edition -revised) and is in like-new condition with a paper jacket.

Locator box 26

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Interurbans Without Wires by Edmund Keilty (JD)

Gene Harmon — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:46:51 +0000

This is the history of the rail motorcar in America, and it surveys all manufacturers from Brill to EMC to Skagit, Hall-Scott to Zeitler Gas Car and Locomotive, and from Maine to California in 198 B&W pages. Published in 1979 by Interurban Press, this book is in good condition with a paper jacket with some tears and wear marks.

Locator: JD

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Route of the Orange Limited by William Gordon (W 19)

Gene Harmon — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:21:59 +0000

This small format 107 page paperback book covers the history of the Rochester (NY) & Eastern Railway and associated lines. This interurban line operated between Canandaigua and Rochester and associated lines between 1900 and 1930. Published in 1953 by the author, this book is in good used condition.

Locator box 19

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Trolleys and Streetcars on American Postcards by Ray Applegate (W 31)

Gene Harmon — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:06:54 +0000

This softbound book has 191 reproductions, with 19 in color, from 162 different locations in all states except Alaska with full captions. Published in 1979 by Dover Publications, this book is in good used condtion.

Locator box 31

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Henry Huntington and the Pacific Electric by Spencer Crump (W 26A)

Gene Harmon — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:21:56 +0000

This is a B&W pictorial history of the PE with comprehensive captions, details about each route, maps, schedules, and text in 112 pages. The book was published by Trans-Anglo Books in 1970 (2nd edition) and is in like-new condition with a paper jacket sporting a few wear marks.

Locator box 26A

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Interurbans Without Wires by Edmund Keilty (W 98, 26)

Gene Harmon — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:21:56 +0000

Locator boxes 98 and 26

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Napa Valley Route by Ira Swett and Harry Aitken (W 26)

Gene Harmon — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:21:55 +0000

In 575 B&W pages, this book covers the complete history of the Napa Route with comprehensive text, maps, images, schedules and rosters. Published byInterurbans in 1975, this book is in like-new condition paper jacket.

Locator box W-26

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