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Pacific Electric in Transition, 1911 Interurban Special 30 1967 Summer Vol.25 #2
Pacific Electric in Transition, 1911 Interurban Special 30 1967 Summer Vol.25 #2
Softcover stapled Personal liubrary label inside front cover.
Copyright, 1967, by Ira L. Swett
43 pages
Pacific Electric Railway Interurban System
Foreword
"Pacific Electric In Transition, 1911," INTERURBANS Special 30, is a reprint of an article which appeared in the January 7, 1911 issue of the "Journal of Electricity, Power & Gas," an important Pacific Coast electrical organ of the era.
Why has this article been deemed of sufficient importance to warrant reprinting? Because it reflects a brief and a unique period in the history of the world's largest interurban.
The author, Mr. Rudolph W. Van Norden, was a major west coast consulting engineer, member of both The American Institute of Electrical Engineers and The American Society of Civil Engineers, with headquarters in the Union Trust Building in San Francisco. His expert reports and evaluations dealing with electrical projects won him an important place in western engineering circles. Thus the following article by Mr. Van Norden may be accepted as accurate and complete---a revealing picture of Pacific Electric as of late 1910-early '11.
Mr. Van Norden trained his scrutiny on PE at that precise period when the interurban company had bade farewell to its builder and long time president, Mr. Henry E. Huntington, yet had not yet been placed under the guidance of another strong executive, Mr. Paul Shoup---Southern Pacific's top interurban operator. Thus one looks in vain for Mr. Huntington's name, surely unusual when dealing with PE---and for any mention whatsoever of Mr. Shoup. Truly, the big interurban railway was in transition, being temporarily guided by Mr. Joseph McMillan as general manager, with a Southern Pacific legal VIP, Mr. William F. Herrin, serving as caretaker president.
The Great Merger had not yet taken place; it was soon to follow, and the Pacific Electric described herein at once burgeoned---swallowing up seven additional railway companies and becoming thereby the giant in the national field.
True aficionados of Pacific Electric history will welcome Special 30 as presenting an outstanding historical vignette of PE at a critical time in its development as well as being, of course, an unconscious tribute to the builder, Henry E. Huntington.
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