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pls don't think I'm mean but I doubt this can be considered a RS. I read Hoyt a few years ago (I'll get it again) and I recall nothing about broken rails,plus lbtransit.com presents broken railsas the ONLY reason for "push", and that's certainly not right |
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The '''Get Out and Push Railroad''' (formally, the '''Wilmington & Long Beach Rapid Transit Railroad''') was a 19th-century [[street railway]], connecting parts of the Willmore area of [[Long Beach, California]] to [[Wilmington, Los Angeles|Wilmington, California]], which requested patrons to assist its trains over the steepest part of the route |
The '''Get Out and Push Railroad''' (formally, the '''Wilmington & Long Beach Rapid Transit Railroad''') was a 19th-century [[street railway]], connecting parts of the Willmore area of [[Long Beach, California]] to [[Wilmington, Los Angeles|Wilmington, California]], which requested patrons to assist its trains over the steepest part of the route. |
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==Sources== |
==Sources== |
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*{{cite journal|last1=Hoyt|first1=Franklyn|title=The Get Out and Push Railroad|journal=The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly|date=March 1951|volume=33|issue=1|pages=74-81|doi=10.2307/41169665|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/41169665|accessdate=10 May 2015|publisher=University of California Press on behalf of the Historical Society of Southern California|via=[[JSTOR]]|subscription=yes}} |
*{{cite journal|last1=Hoyt|first1=Franklyn|title=The Get Out and Push Railroad|journal=The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly|date=March 1951|volume=33|issue=1|pages=74-81|doi=10.2307/41169665|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/41169665|accessdate=10 May 2015|publisher=University of California Press on behalf of the Historical Society of Southern California|via=[[JSTOR]]|subscription=yes}} |
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*[http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/206 "Wilmington and Long Beach 'Get Out and Push' street railroad" (California Historical Society)] |
*[http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/206 "Wilmington and Long Beach 'Get Out and Push' street railroad" (California Historical Society)] |
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Revision as of 00:47, 11 May 2015
The Get Out and Push Railroad (formally, the Wilmington & Long Beach Rapid Transit Railroad) was a 19th-century street railway, connecting parts of the Willmore area of Long Beach, California to Wilmington, California, which requested patrons to assist its trains over the steepest part of the route.
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- Hoyt, Franklyn (March 1951). "The Get Out and Push Railroad". The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly. 33 (1). University of California Press on behalf of the Historical Society of Southern California: 74–81. doi:10.2307/41169665. Retrieved 10 May 2015 – via JSTOR.
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