San Diego Electric Railway Company Part One Dispatcher Railway Historical Society of San Diego Issue 47 June 1964 oversize clbcat7

Woolton, Duncan Sanders

Published by Railway Historical Society of San Diego, San Diego, 1964

About this Item

Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 8. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones, maps &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. The San Diego Electric Railway Company was established by "sugar heir," developer, and entrepreneur John D. Spreckels in 1892. The railroad's original network consisted of five routes: the Fifth Street and Logan Heights Lines; the First and "D" Streets Lines; the Depot Line; the Ferry Line; and the "K" Street Shuttle. The company would establish additional operating divisions as traffic demands led to the formation of new lines. The company also engaged in limited freight handling primarily as an interchange with Spreckels' San Diego and Arizona Railway (SD&A) from 1923 to 1929.At its peak, the SDERy's routes would operate throughout the greater San Diego area over some 165 miles of track. Steadily declining ridership, due in large part to the phenomenal rise in popularity of the automobile, ultimately led the company to discontinue all streetcar service in favor of bus routes in 1949. Some see this as related to the National City Lines's General Motors streetcar conspiracy controversy, as the SCERy's president had been with NCL previously.The few surviving pieces of rolling stock are on display at the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in Campo, the San Diego Electric Railway Association in National City, and the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, California. In exceptionally good condition. Seller Inventory # 25519

Bibliographic Details

Title: San Diego Electric Railway Company Part One ...

Publisher: Railway Historical Society of San Diego, San Diego

Publication Date: 1964

Binding: Paperback

Edition: First Impression.