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Signature Press. Hardcover. New. Union Pacific was a latecomer to the Los Angeles Basin, not becoming part of the Southern California railroad picture until 1901, when E.H. Harriman and W.A. Clark agreed to share ownership of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, which had taken over the property of the Los Angeles Terminal Railway. Completion of the line between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles enabled UP mainline freight and passenger service to reach California. The history of the SPLA&SL, which became simply the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railway in 1916, and then disappeared into the UP, is complex, and the Los Angeles end of the railroad especially so. It is all here, from the many complications at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, to the suburban branches, and the complex passenger arrangements needed to serve the territory. The rivalries with Santa Fe, Pacific Electric and Southern Pacific were expressed in many conflicts and eventual agreements, through Depression, war and many…
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Union Pacific in the Los Angeles Basin Hardcover - 2010
by Asay, Jeff S.
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- Title Union Pacific in the Los Angeles Basin
- Author Asay, Jeff S.
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Publisher Signature Press, Wilton, CA
- Date 2010-01
- ISBN 9781930013315
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