Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Image not available
Rare Books
651423
Image not available
Manuscripts
1 glass plate negative: b&w; 13x18cm. Note: broken into two pieces.
JLP 635
Image not available
Rare Books
This is the story of rail-intermodal, the process of transporting truck trailers or containers on specifically designed railroad cars, including the development of Gene Ryan's Rail-Trailer Co., General Motors flirtation with a depressed center-car design, the establishment of Trailer Train, Southern Pacific's truck-trailer train experiement between Los Angeles-San Francisco (handling only company-owned Pacific Motor Trucking trailers), the separation of Pennsylvania Railroad's influence over Trailer Train, the combination rail-highway units familiarly called Rail Van and RoadRailer. Featured are the various hitch arrangements, the once popular trailer-leasing program, the expansion of United Parcel from a department store delivery service to the nation's largest freight carrier and their influence on rail-piggyback--Adapted from jacket.
644084
Image not available
Rare Books
484890
