Pacific Electric Red Car Line – The Red Cars

Balboa was the southernmost route of the Pacific Electric Railway, running between Downtown Los Angeles and the Balboa Peninsula in Orange County by way of North Long Beach, though the route was later cut back to the Newport Dock. The route ran “flyer” service between Downtown Los Angeles and Willowville (a route also served by …

1908 MARISKA will be sold at Auction

No Owner Reserved Price (Lot number 62) – February 7th 2020 *Breaking News Mariska Sells for 320,000€ – Far Below Estimate   Highest Winning Bidder Will be the New Owner of the 1908 William Fife III – MARISKA Estimation 700,000 – 1,500,000 €   Classic Yacht Registry of Heritage: MARISKA   The IYRU Fifteen Metre …

Who Killed the Electric Car

Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary film that explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the mid-1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the federal government of the United States, the …

Shackleton Reaches Magnetic South Pole

On January 16, 1909, explorers Douglas Mawson and Alistair Mackay David Edworth, led by Ernest Shackleton, were able to locate the south magnetic pole-southernmost point reached to date, during an expedition to Antarctica. The first of three trips led by the Anglo-Irish to the frozen continent was named Nimrod expedition, known to history as the …