Books

ROUTE 66 RAILWAY by Elrond Lawrence

• Available now from the Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation
• 176 pages, mostly color, hardcover with dust jacket
• $49.50 + $6.00 handling and shipping + $4.08 sales tax if ordered within the State of California
• $49.50 + $25.00 handling and shipping for all international shipments (outside of the United States)

Route 66 Railway explores the relationship between Route 66 and the Santa Fe/BNSF Railway in spectacular pictures and entertaining text. For 80 years and over 800 miles, they have been constant companions through California, Arizona and New Mexico. For the first time their shared history is told, followed by a visual roadtrip across the Southwest through canyons, forests, deserts and towns of all sizes. Thrill to Santa Fe’s famous Warbonnets and modern BNSF diesels as they lead their trains past colorful cafes, tourist traps, motor courts, and train depots.

The book magically sweeps you along Route 66, visiting towns and touchstones where the railroad and highway meet, and recalling a time when crossing the Southwest was an adventure. Over 250 dramatic photographs will transport you up California’s Cajon Pass, across the Mojave Desert and Arizona Divide, and past the mesas of New Mexico. Along the way, we'll visit colorful cafes, tourist traps, motor courts, passenger depots and more . . . all amid the thunder of passing trains. In Route 66 Railway, the journey is the destination!

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

• Available from the Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation
• 100 pages, full color, hundreds of color images, perfectbound.
• $16.95 plus California sales tax (if applicable) and $6.00 shipping

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.

Lapel Pins

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LARHF Lapel Pin Show your support for the Foundation by wearing this top-quality lapel pin. Featuring the Foundation's logotype set against the bold "LARHF" acronym, you'll proudly proclaim your support of the Foundation's efforts every time you wear it. Lapel pin: $6.00 each plus 8.25% sales tax. Shipping and handling is $2.00.

Pasadena Museum of History Lapel Pin Own a piece of history - the commemorative pin designed and produced exclusively for the Foundation's exhibit produced in cooperation with the Pasadena Museum of History. Featuring the logos of Metro, AT&SF and PE, this pin is an eye-catcher that you'll enjoy adding to your collection. Lapel pin: $12.00 each plus 8.25% sales tax. Shipping and handling is $2.00.