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California Trolleys in Color Vol 1 San Diego & Los Angeles Copeland w/dustjacket
California Trolleys in Color Vol 1 San Diego & Los Angeles Copeland
California Trolleys in Color Vol 1
San Diego & Los Angeles
P. Allen Copeland
Hard Cover with dust jacket Reflections form the lights on some photos
Morning Sun Book
128 Pages
Copyright 2002
Table of Contents
SAN DIEGO ELECTRIC RAILWAY 4
San Diego Class 1 Cars 5
San Diego Class 2 Cars 6
Former Glendale & Montrose Cars
San Diego Class 4 6
San Diego Class 5 Cars 7
The P.C.C. Cars
San Diego Class 6 16
Former Salt Lake Cars
San Diego Class 8 22
Former Wilkes-Barre Cars
San Diego Class 7 22
Former Third Avenue (New York) Cars
San Diego Class 8 23
San Diego Work Cars 24
San Diego Motor Coaches 25
San Diego Electric Railway Graduates . . 26
Los ANGELES RAILWAY/
Los ANGELES TRANSIT LINES 30
Los Angeles Yellow Cars
Los Angeles Class B31
The "Sowbellies"
Los Angeles Class C46
Former Funeral Car Descanso
Los Angeles Class E47
The Birney Cars
Los Angeles Class G 48
The Rebuilt "Maggies"
Los Angeles Class H-449
The Steel California Cars
Los Angeles Class H-377
Home Made Class H Copies
Los Angeles Class K87
Low Level Experimental
Los Angeles Class L95
The Peter Witts
Los Angeles Class M 97
The Streamliners
Los Angeles Class P99
Work Cars
Los Angeles Maintenance of Way E .112 Los Angeles Transit Lines
Motor Coaches and Trolley Coaches . .119 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT/ Los ANGELES COUNTRY
METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHORITY . 125
The Blue Line 125
This is the first in a two volume set of color books covering the electric railways of California. They can be thought of as an extension to the previous color books by the author on the Pacific Electric In Color Volumes 1 and 2. As with those books, thia is not a history or thorough review of the other Southern California electric railways. This is a color pictorial of San Diego and Los Angeles (excluding the Pacific Electric) in the late years of their existence. Large sections of the San Diego Electric Ry. (including the long suburban lines to Point Loma, Ocean Beach and La Jolla) were abandoned before World War Two, and some minor lines in Los Angeles had also been converted to bus by this time. World War Two, with its increased traffic levels and gas rationing, kept many streetcars in service.
The San Diego Electric Ry. experienced a 360% increase in traffic levels, and had to purchase extra equipment from Salt Lake City, Utah, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. and New York City. The Los Angeles "yellow car" system also enjoyed increased traffic, but with a narrow 3'6" track gauge, had to get by by pulling older cars out of storage and buying new streamlined trolleys. After the War, traffic levels declined as former patrons turned to the private automobile. As an economy measure, the San Diego trolley lines were converted to motor coach in 1949. In 1945, the Los Angeles Ry. (LARY) was sold to new owners who renamed the system the Los Angeles Transit Lines, and proceeded to modernize the system with new buses, trolley coaches and even more modern streamlined streetcars. The modernization and declining traffic levels caused most Los Angeles streetcar lines to be converted to rubber tired vehicles, and by 1958, when the system was sold to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, only five streetcar lines remained. Within a short time, the few conventional streetcars were replaced with surplus streamlined cars. In 1963, the five streetcar and two trolley coach lines were converted to diesel buses. A number of streetcars were sold for use elsewhere, and examples of a number of Los Angeles and San Diego electric vehicles have been preserved at the Orange Empire Railway Museum at Perris, Calif.
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