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- PublisherGolden West Books
- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 0870951300
- ISBN 13 9780870951305
- BindingTankobon Hardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages320
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The Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company: The Historic Union Pacific Salt Lake Route
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. This is an upgrade and update of what was a good book originally. The current edition includes the current era since the Union Pacific buyout of the Southern Pacific and includes color photographs and great maps that John Signor is known for. The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, Union Pacific's Salt Lake Route was first published in 1988 and has long been out of print. However, since the initial printing, much has happened on the old Salt Lake Route and considerable additional material has come to light. A desire to revise, correct, update and expand the first edition has resulted in this volume, and, with modern printing methods available today, it includes a great deal more color photographs and illustrations than the original. This revised edition includes 64 additional pages plus 48 period graphics and timetables, 52 maps, 415 photographs of which 81 are in color, a bibliography and index. Union Pacific is one of the most modern railroads in the country. The railroad's 780-mile line from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles is no exception. To the uninformed it would seem as if the railroad was built just yesterday, yet the history of this, the Salt Lake Route, now spans more than a century rich in the annals of railroading and the American West. As far as transcontinental railroads are concerned, the Salt Lake Route is a late comer, yet it is a true pioneer. The location of the railroad, connecting the City of Saints (Salt Lake City) with the City of Angels (Los Angeles) was built through largely undeveloped country more or less following the Old Spanish Trail. It even founded the City of Las Vegas, Nevada which in Spanish translates to "The Meadows" for wild grasses fed by artesian springs. Organized in a chronological format, this volume covers in detail every aspect of the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad's construction and operation, its merger with Union Pacific in the Twenties, and the challenges of competition, wartime and coping with the demands of the country it traversed. Contents: Introduction, pp. 6-10, From Trail to Rail: Early Development, pp. 11-40, The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company: Completion and Early Operation, pp. 41-104, The 'Pedro' Comes of Age: Union Pacific Assumes Control, pp. 105-184, The LA&SL: Road of the Streamliners, pp. 185-252, The California Division: Freeway for Freight, pp. 253-284, Into the New Millennium: The 'Pedro' Enters its Second Century, pp. 285-312, Epilogue, Bibliography, Index, pp. 313-320. Hardcover with dust jacket, standard vertical format, 8 x 10 in., 320 pages, B&W and Color illustrations and photographs, maps and timetables. Seller Inventory # gwb305
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Hardcover with dust jacket, 584 pages, 8.5 x 11 x 3 in. 1,043 photographs (about 40% color), 76 maps, Bibliography and Index. John Signor is a great author on United States railroad subjects and combined with his illustrator skills, this is a great book to have in your library - all 6+ lbs. of it! This book is filled with so much information on Southern Pacific's Los Angeles Division. Maps, diagrams of yards, lists of local freights, tonnage diagrams, passenger trains and schedules, through freight times and names, historical B&W photographs, Color photographs of the late steam era up the the late 1980s and a short discussion of SP's electrification study and so much more! From the first stirring of a Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad locomotive in January 1869, to the merger with Union Pacific on September 11, 1996, Southern Pacific's Los Angeles Division in all of its manifestations was an engine of growth and prosperity in Southern California. It employed many thousands over the years in its offices, shops and trains. It brought settlers west, established towns, brought war workers in and sent the troops home. Much has been written about the Southern Pacific and its subsidiaries in the Southland. This volume was conceived to augment these works by tracing the long and involved operating history of the Southern Pacific as it first helped to create Southern California, then later adapted to cope with its explosive growth. Accompanying the text are over 1,000 photographs-most never published, including 456 in color plus timetables and other ephemera, and 76 maps, many of which are rendered in the author's unique "bird's eye view" style. With Los Angeles as a destination of significance from the beginning, the author has been able to draw from a wealth of historic material on the subject, preserved by the railway itself, official repositories, interested employees and other individuals which includes photographs, firsthand experiences and the day-to-day paperwork that documented how SP operated in Southern California. Southern Pacific's Los Angeles Division is sure to find a place on the book shelves of those interested in the SP, or the history of Southern California as a whole. Contents: Introduction, pp. 6-10, Early Days, 1869-1900, pp. 11-74, Expansion, 1900-1929, pp. 75-174, Depression and War, 1929-1945, pp. 175-286, Postwar, 1946-1970, pp. 287-522, Retrenchment, 1970-1996, pp. 523-576, Epilogue, pg. 577, Bibliography, pp. 578-579, Index, pp. 580-584. Seller Inventory # sphs791
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Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company, The: Historic Union Pacific Salt Lake Route
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