Talk:Pacific Electric Railway

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[edit] A fine article

Congratulations to the contributors. Bryan 22:44, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] pacific electric railway relief map from 1920

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb638nb72q/ (material in public domain) If this is a useful map, would someone care to add it to the article? -Tonyinthailand 08:36, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Influence on other systems

I've removed the following text from the article because it reads like a babelfish translation that needs quite a bit of work (and citations) first:

==Affected foreign countries==
===Japan===

Pacific electric which was the company which performed rapid transit with the exclusive orbit subject resembled closely towards a Japanese electrification private railroad than American other electric railroads.

There was it in what I could put what Pacific electric railroad and a Japanese private railroad came to resemble together for development of electric railroad technology, and living apart with other routes was able to perform by having been a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific railroad which was population growth having advanced, a trunk route in an area, but a part of a Japanese early stage of electric railroad engineer and manager hit route construction and inspected Pacific electric, and there was the direct side to be affected.

Hankyu and Tokyu, take in technique of Pacific electric and Huntington performing railroad extension and residential land development in parallel positively from the establishment of a business period, and it may be said that it is a successful example. In the bedroom town by Development along the line of Pacific electric, inhabitants move to a very large house than a thing of the suburbs with expansion of a freeway network, and I take place, and it is it with the town where the inhabitants who cannot "have a car" live in, and there is not a little the area that became a slum occurring frequently of a brutal crime in the integrated telephone service riot that occurred along ex-Long Beach line Pacific electric abolition several years later as a start in the line. When thought about this, technique of Pacific electric as a developer was over without settling in Los Angeles as the head family, and it watched fixation in impossible Japanese metropolitan area or Keihanshin district area rather to be completely dependent on a car from the crowd degree; can ask it it.

In the present, it is said that influence amounts to the train bodies color of a red system such as Keikyu, Meitetsu (as for Meitetsu, car turn mark style of handwriting or electric locomotive body color) even if only the painting says, and the body color of Kanto Bus approximately just imitates the bus body color of Pacific electric railroad. But, as for the colour of the ground, it of Pacific electric was silver for white of Kanto Bus. （Kanto Bus regarded the ground as the silver painting to a head at the beginning of 1950's, too.） In addition, a logo is similar shape, too. Pacific electric can always ask this about what was incised on the mind as a certain model for an early stage of electric railway and bus enterprise.

Slambo (Speak) 18:35, 7 January 2007 (UTC)