Description: Pacific Electric Volume 1 - Southern District Step back into a railfan's paradise - Los Angeles in the 1940's, where the world's largest interurban was scheduling 1,100 passenger trains a day. From thousands of Pacific Electric Logofeet of vintage film, producer-archivist Don Olsen has assembled an extraordinary record of this interurban empire. Volume 1, first in a trilogy of Pacific Electric videos, features the Southern District, with the Long Beach/San Pedro , Newport Beach, Santa Ana and El Segundo/Torrance Lines. The evolution of ten and twelve hundred class cars and the "blimps" which supplanted them is well documented. Separate sections are devoted to carload freight and maintenance-of-way activities, including rail and overhead replacement and wrecks. As the system's premier freight hauler, electric, steam and diesel powered freights, plus box motors and RPOs kept the rails well polished with wartime activity, and these amazing scenes recall it all with vivid clarity. 70 minutes This Was Pacific Electric tells the entire story of Southern California's famous RED CARS. Beginning in 1874 with the first horse car, this wonderful production follows the P.E. from its glory days in the 20's, into the depression of the 30's, through a resurrection in the war years and on to its final demise in 1961. But this documentary tells an even bigger story. Produced in cooperation with the world famous Huntington Library, This Was Pacific Electric explains the interweaving of this famous railway and the development of Southern California -- Five counties that became what they are today because the RED CARS of the PE. The story is told through historical film and hundreds of still pictures. It contains interviews with historians, those who worked on the railway, and those who simply remember the days when you could travel anywhere in Southern California by electric rail. This is a professional production written & directed by world famous director Thom Eberhardt and narrated by Stephanie Edwards. 90 minutes
Price: 49.99 USD
Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland
End Time: 2024-12-09T14:51:34.000Z
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Rating: NR
Sub-Genre: Trains, Railroads
Exact Transportation: Railroads
Country of Manufacture: United States
Former Rental?: No
Studio: C-Vision Productions
Edition: Full Screen
Subject: Trains
Brand: C-Vision Productions
Format: DVD
Region Code: 0/All (Region Free/Worldwide)
Producer: C-Vision Productions
Language: English
Region: DVD: 0, All (Worldwide)
Genre: Documentary
Movie/TV Title: Cliffs Erie Cab Ride
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Transportation Type: Railroad, Trains & Traction
DVD Format: NTSC
