[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From the Edward Langer Collection comes this short brochure used by Southern Pacific sales personnel to explain train movements to potential customers.
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From the Edward Langer Collection comes this 50th anniversary commemorative pamphlet produced by the Pacific Electric Railway, touting its reach and scope at a time when line abandonments were accelerating.
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A blank copy of Pacific Electric’s “Private Road Crossing Tracks at Grade” Agreement, version dated November 1954.
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From former RTD employee Edward Langer:
Here is a copy of a Metro Blue Line Line poster we handed out to promote then upcoming rail lire between Long Beach and Los Angeles. I was the project manager on getting the photo. We spoke with the photographer several times. I let him borrow my railroad books to get a sense of what other photographers had done and then let him come up with his own idea.What he ultimately did was to have a stationary car photographed at twilight. Using a large camera, he panned the camera with the lens open from the back to the front of the car then hit the flash. You get some blurriness in the rear as if there is movement and the flash stop actions the picture.The photos show the photographer and his assistant. The man in the orange safety vest is my boss Mike Barnes.
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Here is a photo I took of the Pacific Electric freight lines in the 1970s.
Edward Langer Photo and Collection
Here is a photo I took of the Pacific Electric freight lines in the 1970s.
This shows what kept on frustrating me the most regarding abandonment.
Edward Langer Photo and Collection
Here is a photo I took of the Pacific Electric freight lines in the 1970s.
Edward Langer Photo and Collection
Here is a photo I took of the Pacific Electric freight lines in the 1970s.
From Interurban Special #37, page 791:
The final group of second-hand cabooses was purchased from the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac in 1950. This official PE view, taken at 8th Street Yard, shows 1984’s first style of PE lettering which was later changed to resemble SP’s block style lettering of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.
Edward Langer Collection
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From the Edward Langer Collection comes this fascinating bit of history as written by the General Attorney of Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Randolph Karr, in 1973. Mr. Karr served for 34 years with both the SP and Pacific Electric, and his father Frank Karr served 42 years with PE, retiring in 1944 as Vice President and Chief Counsel of Pacific Electric.
This historic document details many facts of the PE’s history and demise through the eyes of those who were in its management, so it serves as a unique look into the inner workings of his beloved organization.
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