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Los Angeles Pacific Album Interurbans Special 40 by Ira Swett Soft Cover
Los Angeles Pacific Album Interurbans Special 40 by Ira Swett Reflections from the lights on some photos.
Soft Cover
150 pages
Copyright 1965
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table Of Contents, Special 40:
Foreword 3
I - History 5
Ii - Cars 13
Iii - Right Of Way 53
Iv - Stations 73
V - Shops & Barns 91
Vi - Power 103
Vii - Freight 115
Viii - The Long Wharf125
Ix - Hill St. Tunnels131
X - Balloon Route Excursion 139
Tapping The Field145
Mail Call 146
FOREWORD
One of INTERURBANS' most popular publications was Special 18, "Los Angeles Pacific." Published in November, 1955, the issue sold out in record time. We expect to publish a revised and enlarged version of this work in a year or so, and thus the reader may well ask, "SO, why this 'LAP Album?"'
The answer lies in the fact that material contained in Special 18 is quite sufficient to make a good sized book of its own; to add the material in Special 40 would run the combined work to an inordinate number of pages.
Another question might well be, "How does it happen that so great a quantity of new material has been unearthed to make it possible to publish a completely new book?"
Here we acknowledge the debt owed to Mr. Carl Blaubach of the California Public Utilities Commission. Mr. Blaubach was loaned one of the most unusual photo albums your editor has yet had the privilege of inspecting. Page after page of mint condition photographs, all dealing with Los Angeles Pacific in its prime, are there---most never before published. This album was the property of the late Mr. T. L. Wagenbach, a former LAP and Pacific Electric official (he became PE General Manager in 1948). The Wagenbach album forms the basic Special 40. To it have been added photos unearthed since Special 18 appeared; these tardy jewels usually are accompanied by such expressions as: "If only I had known you were planning a book on this topic!"
Photos not bearing a credit line are from the Wagenbach album, with others identified individually by initials of contributor.
August 1, 1966Ira L. Swett
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