Railroads and trolleys in the United States and Mexico : photographs, 1889-1972

Los Angeles Transit Lines

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Los Angeles Interurban.

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Philadelphia Transportation Company

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The Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) was incorporated in Pennsylvania on January 1, 1940, by the merger of all the bus, streetcar and subway companies in the city of Philadelphia, with suburban routes extending to Doylestown in Bucks County and Chester and Media in Delaware County. On September 30, 1968, it sold all its assets to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) a public agency and went into liquidation. Philadelphia's first horse-d...

Utah Idaho Central.

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Syracuse & Suburban Railway.

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Johnston, Howard E.

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San Francisco, Napa & Calistoga Railway.

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Los Angeles Pacific Railroad Company.

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Oakland Traction Company.

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Kitchner & Waterloo St. Railway.

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Sacramento City Lines.

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Johnson, Charles M. (Charles Marion), 1891-1964

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Southern Pacific Company

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What started as a boycott by the American Railway Union against Pullman's Palace Car Co. in 1894 escalated to a strike covering the area from Chicago to the Pacific Coast. On the premise of interfering with the mails the federal government intervened and crushed the strike. From the description of Journal of incidents in San Francisco resulting from the American Railway Union strike, 1894 June 27-Aug. 31. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record ...

Joslyn, D. L.

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Kentucky Traction & Terminal Company.

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San Jose Railroad.

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Northern Electric Railway

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Historical Background The Northern Electric Company was incorporated on June 14, 1905. Its trackage consisted of a line from Chico to Sacramento, branches from Oroville Junction and Chico to Hamilton, and street car tracks in Chico. In December 1907, the firm was absorbed into the Northern Electric Railway Company. This line operated almost 160 miles of track from Sacramento to Chico and Oroville, as well as street railway trackage in Sacrame...

Marysville/Yuba City Railway.

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Central California Traction Company

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Swanberg, J. W.

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Redlands Central Railway Company.

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Eureka Municipal Railway.

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South Field Beach Railroad.

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San Bernardino Valley Traction Company.

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Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

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Biography / Administrative History The videos held in this collection were produced and/or collected by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its predecessor agencies. The Scope Content note provides more detail regarding the context of creation of these videos, which agency departments were involved, and out of which functions and activities they were produced. From the guide to the LACMTA transit video...

Claremont Railway.

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Shagit River Railroad.

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California Street Cable Railroad Company.

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Los Angeles Railway

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The Los Angeles Railway Corporation, formed in 1910, was the final result of various mergers and consolidations of the numerous local and interurban railways which developed in Los Angeles and adjacent communities. From the description of Records of the Los Angeles Railway Corporation, 1887-1938. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122570780 ...

Claremont, University & Ferry Railway.

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Fresno Traction Company.

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Stockton Electric Railway.

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Votava, George E.

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Union Pacific railroad company

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Served Oklahoma and other Western states. From the description of Union Pacific collection, 1930-1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70972329 The story of the Union Pacific Railroad's involvement with oil and the Tidelands goes back to at least 1911 when the State of California granted the City of Long Beach its tidelands properties for development of commerce, navigation, fisheries, and recreation under a public trust doctine, meaning any development and revenues from such...

Central Pacific.

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Oakland, Antioch & Eastern Railroad.

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Los Angeles Traction Company.

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Frisco

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Liebman, Stuart A.

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Point Loma Railroad Company.

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Market Street Cable Railway Company

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United Railroads of San Francisco

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United Railroads of San Francisco, the Market Street Railway Company and the Municipal Railway Co., were all aggregations of small street railway lines that provided urban transportation for San Francisco. Among these street railways were the following: Sutter St. Railway Co., Sutro Railway Co., San Francisco and Alameda R.R. Co., and the South San Francisco Railroad and Power Co. The United Railroads of San Francisco was organized in March, 1902 and sold out to Market Street Cable Railway Co. i...

Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company

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Jernstrom, C. W.

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Winslow, Jeffrey K.

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East Bay St. Railways.

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San Diego Electric Railway.

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Interurban Electric Railway Company.

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Phelps, A. C.

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Savage, C.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

Santa Barbara & Suburban Railway.

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Pacific Electric Railway Company

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The Pacific Electric Railway was established in Southern California by railroad and real estate tycoon Henry E. Huntington in 1901; by 1911 it was the largest interurban electric transport system in the nation with over 1000 miles of track. The first interurban line constructed by the Railway ran from Los Angeles to Long Beach, and opened in 1902. In 1905, Huntington opened the Pacific Electric Building at 6th and Main Streets in Los Angeles which served as the terminal for many of the interurba...

New York Central Railroad Company

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The New York Central Railroad first stationed business representatives in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853, but it was not until 1870 that the railroad established a significant presence in the local railroad economy. During the 1880s-1890s, the New York Central purchased controlling interests in various railroads to secure routes into Cleveland. In the early twentieth century it built and bought lines through and around Cleveland. Yards that were key to New York Central's repair, maintenance, and stora...

Temiscouata Railroad.

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Visalia Electric Railway.

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Ontario & San Antonio Hts. Railway Company.

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Nevada County Traction Company.

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Sacramento Northern Railway Company

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Santa Fe Central Railway Company

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San Francisco Municipal Railway

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