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Pacific and Electric
* 1961 – The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
Luz II, Ltd. plans to use the solar array to test new technology for the three new solar plants to be built in California for Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
Erin Brockovich-Ellis ( born June 22, 1960 ) is an American legal clerk and environmental activist who, despite the lack of a formal law school education, or any legal education, was instrumental in constructing a case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company ( PG & E ) of California in 1993.
Brockovich's work in bringing litigation against Pacific Gas and Electric is the focus of the 2000 feature film, Erin Brockovich, starring Julia Roberts in the title role.
Category: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
* September 9, 2010-a 30 inch diameter high pressure natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded in flames in the Crestmoor residential neighborhood 2 mi ( 3. 2 km ) west of San Francisco International Airport, killing 8, injuring 58, and destroying 38 homes.
** Annandale ( Pacific Electric ), railroad in this location
A streetcar of the Pacific Electric Railway makes a stop at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel circa 1905.
** Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Line ( Bakersfield and Kern Electric ), in California
* Beverly Hills ( Pacific Electric ), a suburban line of the Pacific Electric Railway
It is the first of the MTA's modern rail lines since the 1961 demise of the Pacific Electric Railway's Red Car system.
A major artery with a Pacific Electric " Red Car " line between the traffic was built all the way from Hollywood, over Cahuenga Pass, through Lankershim ( now North Hollywood ) out Chandler Blvd., turning right into Van Nuys on Van Nuys Blvd.
Whitley in 1911 were to take the Pacific Electric interurban and be downtown in an hour or drive the paved road alongside —(" no speed limit " if your Model A could go 35 mph ) all season.
Van Nuys is planned around the Pacific Electric Red Car line — running out Chandler Bl from Lankershim ( now North Hollywood ), turning into Van Nuys Bl, running through Van Nuys, and turning out Sherman Way to the future towns Marion ( now Reseda ) and Owensmouth ( now Canoga Park ) from Los Angeles.
The coal-fired electricity generation plant, the Boardman Turbine Coal Plant ( 601 megawatts ), is located southwest of the town of Boardman, and is owned by Portland General Electric ( PGE ; 66 %- owned and operated ), Idaho Power ( 10 %), Pacific Northwest Generating ( 10 %), and General Electric Credit Corp. ( 16 %).
Davis ' 1999 and 2000 contributions included contributions from Pacific Gas & Electric and Edison International.
However, the industrial park area in the southernmost part of the city is served by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad ( later the Union Pacific ) both were built through what would become the community, as was the Pacific Electric Railway's Whittier Line.
Pacific Electric in Monrovia, 1903
In the same year, the Pacific Electric was opened providing transportation to and from Los Angeles, making it possible for Monrovian homeowners to work in Los Angeles.

Pacific and Red
He is generally considered a world conquest military genius, given his successful strategy: he attempted to close all the Indian Ocean naval passages to the Atlantic, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and to the Pacific, transforming it into a Portuguese mare clausum established over the Ottoman power and their Muslim and Hindu allies .< ref >
DeMille was, however, adept at directing " thousands of extras ", and many of his pictures included spectacular set pieces, such as the parting of the Red Sea in both versions of The Ten Commandments, the toppling of the pagan temple in Samson and Delilah, train wrecks in The Road to Yesterday, Union Pacific and The Greatest Show on Earth, and the destruction of a zeppelin in Madame Satan.
Additionally outside the region, FSM is a member or participant of the ACP ( Lomé Convention ), the Alliance of Small Island States, the Asian Development Bank, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( ESCAP ), the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), the G-77, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the IMF, the International Olympic Committee, the ITU, the NAM and the World Meteorological Organization.
Additionally outside the region, Kibibati is a member or participant of the ACP ( Lomé Convention ), the Asian Development Bank, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( ESCAP ), the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the IMF, International Maritime Organization, International Olympic Committee, International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ), Universal Postal Union and the World Meteorological Organization.
Laos is a member of the following international organizations: Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation ( ACCT ), Association of Southeast Asian NationsASEAN, ASEAN Free Trade Area ( AFTA ), ASEAN Regional Forum, Asian Development Bank, Colombo Plan, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific ( ESCAP ), Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), Group of 77G-77, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( World Bank ), International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ), International Development Association ( IDA ), International Fund for Agricultural Development ( IFAD ), International Finance Corporation ( IFC ), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Labour Organization ( ILO ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), Intelsat ( nonsignatory user ), Interpol, International Olympic Commission ( IOC ), International Telecommunication UnionITU, Mekong Group, Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ), Permanent Court of Arbitration ( PCA ), United Nations, United Nations Convention on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), United Nations Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO ), Universal Postal Union ( UPU ), World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization ( WHO ), World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ), World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ), World Tourism Organization, World Trade Organization ( observer ).
The stadium, which was located at 16th & Bryant St. across from the Stempel's Bakery, had been the home of the Pacific Coast League ( PCL ) San Francisco Seals, a minor league affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, from 1931 to 1957.
Westwood Pacific developed or co-developed games like Nox and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, which takes place in an alternate universe to that of the original title Command & Conquer.
menziesii ), Pacific madrone ( Arbutus menziesii ), Red alder ( Alnus rubra ) and Bigleaf maple ( Acer macrophyllum ) forest.
* c. 7000 BC: Red pepper, bottle gourd, avocados, and squash cultivated on Pacific coast of Guatemala.
Shrub associates in the central and northern part of Coast Douglas-fir's range include Vine Maple ( Acer circinatum ), Salal ( Gaultheria shallon ), Pacific Rhododendron ( Rhododendron macrophyllum ), Oregon-grape ( Mahonia aquifolium ), Red huckleberry ( Vaccinium parvifolium ), and Salmonberry ( Rubus spectabilis ).
Commercial fish species include 6 species of Pacific Salmon, Alaska Pollock, Red King Crab, Chionoecetes Pacific cod, Pacific halibut, Yellowfin Sole, Pacific ocean perch and sablefish.
Scenes of this nature have developed in New York City ( centering on the Lower East Side and Red Hook, Brooklyn ), in Southern California ( primarily the Los Angeles area ), in the San Francisco Bay area, and in the Pacific Northwest.
Totem poles are monumental sculptures carved from large trees, mostly Western Red Cedar, by cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America.
The Indo-Pacific region ( including the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia and the Pacific ) account for 91. 9 % of this total.
In 1886, the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad built a line from Red Fork to Sapulpa.
In 2008 Chief Red Blood Anthony Morales received the prestigious “ Heritage Award ” from the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California.

Pacific and Car
Bill Freeman was also Sports Car Club of America ’ s Southern Pacific National Champion during the Newman Freeman Racing period.
Transportation companies serving the county at the time included the Cotton Belt Route, the St. Louis – San Francisco Railway, Missouri Pacific, the Arkansas River Packet Company, the Wiley Jones Street Car Lines, and the Citizens Street Railway Company.
The contract was handed to the Pacific Car and Foundry Company which delivered the XM701 prototype in 1965.
The Pacific Electric Railway, also known as the Red Car system, was a mass transit system in Southern California using streetcars, light rail, and buses.
AMT operates a fleet of bilevel passenger rail cars produced in 1969 by Canadian Vickers for the Canadian Pacific Railway's " Town Car " service ; CPR's commuter rail operations in Montreal were discontinued in the late 1970s and these bilevel cars were sold to AMT.
Upon a subsequent merger with a Portland, Oregon, firm, Twohy Brothers, Seattle Car Manufacturing Company became the Pacific Car and Foundry Company.
In 1945, Pacific Car and Foundry purchased Seattle's Kenworth Motor Truck Company.
In 1972 the corporate name officially changed to PACCAR Inc, and the Pacific Car and Foundry Company became a subsidiary division.
Because neither San Diego, San Luis Obispo, nor Goleta is equipped with a usable wye or a turntable, trains running on the Pacific Surfliner are arranged so that the last car of the consist ( the Cab Control Car ) is one equipped with engineer controls, so that the train can be operated in either direction, allowing for a quick turnaround.
California Amtrak Cab / Control Car Pacific Surfliner 6905 in Lake Forest, CA.
* Pacific Business Class Car
Pacific Surfliner trainsets usually consist of an EMD F59PHI locomotive, a business class car, a cafe car with coach seating, two coach cars, and a Cab Control Car equipped with coach seating, a checked baggage space, and engineer controls.
File: Surfliner Cab Car. jpg | Northbound Pacific Surfliner cab car crosses Carlsbad Village Dr. in Carlsbad.
Being one of the most original buildings that was first constructed in Watts, it was a popular stop for the Pacific Electric Railway's “ Red Car ” that ran through Los Angeles, CA, to Long Beach, CA, for 50 years.
The Cahuenga Parkway featured Pacific Electric Railway " Red Car " tracks in its median, but by the 1950s these tracks were out of service due to radical reductions in Red Car service.
* Northern Pacific 1264, originally NP 1144, a wood cupola caboose built in 1901 by the South Baltimore Car Works in Baltimore, Maryland.
* Northern Pacific 1730, now Minnesota Transfer Railway X-12, is a former cupola caboose built for the Northern Pacific in 1921 by Pacific Car and Foundry.
* Northern Pacific 19, a wedge snowplow built by the Russell Car Company, is currently owned by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum and is on display in Duluth, Minnesota.

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