Image / Pacific Electric Streetcar, Orange, California, ca. 1905

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Title: Pacific Electric Streetcar, Orange, California, ca. 1905
Date Created and/or Issued: ca. 1905
Publication Information: Orange Public Library
Contributing Institution: Orange Public Library and History Center
Collection: Orange Public Library Local History Collection
Rights Information: For information on copyrights and permissions, please contact Orange Public Library, Orange, California.
Description: Pacific Electric Streetcar, Orange, California, ca. 1905. Postcard image shows view looking across the Plaza Square, with several men riders on "Orange Dummy" streetcar (a railroad term for the street-locomotive), posing for photograph. E.I. Tolle is the engineer. The Orange Dummy, also known as the Peanut Roaster for its shrill whistle, was built by the Tolle brothers who bought and operated the line and ran the streetcar beginning in 1896 from Orange to Santa Ana. It was advertized for its "Odorless, smokeless, noiseless motor."
Postcard
Color
17.5 x 24 cm.
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1d5nb6sv
DC103
10512027
Language: English
Subject: Street railroads
Orange (Calif.)
Orange Dummy--Orange (Calif.)
Pacific Electric--Orange (Calif.)
Tolle, E. I

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