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Route 66 Railway explores the relationship between Route 66 and the Santa Fe/BNSF Railway in words and pictures. For 80 years and over 800 miles, they are constant companions through New Mexico, Arizona and California. This hardcover book will be a visual roadtrip, touring these iconic routes and the land they traverse. The book magically sweeps you along Route 66 visiting towns and touchstones where the worlds of railroad and highway meet, the people who keep the "Mother Road" alive, and railroaders who recall the days when crossing the Southwest was an adventure. Dramatic photography will transport you to the red mesas of New Mexico, across the Arizona Divide, over the mighty Colorado River and the desolate Mojave, and down California's Cajon Pass to Los Angeles. Along the way, we'll visit colorful cafes, tourist traps, motor courts, train depots and more . . . all the while, listening to the thunder of passing trains dressed in a rainbow of colors. Check the Route 66 Railway website to learn more about the book and its author/photographer Elrond Lawrence. DESTINATIONS by Roger L. Titus and Jim Bunte
At the turn of the century, picture postcards were the dominant form of image-based reminders for those who traveled. Because photography had not yet become a low-cost, popular way of capturing memories, postcard publishers filled the bill with thousands of wonderful variations. And nowhere was this trend more apparent than in Southern California, where picture postcards and the trolleys that took tourists and residents throughout the Southland came to define the California Dream to the world. DESTINATIONS by Roger L. Titus and Jim Bunte features hundreds of cards and related artifacts depicting life in Southern California from the turn of the century to the 1950s — and all defined by the tracks of the Pacific Electric and its predecessor lines like the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad. At the heart of DESTINATIONS is Henry E. Huntington and his massive Pacific Electric interurban / trolley empire. The book follows the development of the PE throughout Southern California, how Huntington's real estate empire paralleled the development of the PE and how postcard publishers helped promote locations along the PE with beautiful, stylized representations of the Southland. Each page contains a Southern California city or attraction, with major areas covered across multiple pages and illustrated with numerous postcards. In addition, unique Pacific Electric artifacts are included.
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