CERA's 2nd Friday, November 14, 2025 Zoom Presentation: Harvey Laner:

CERA’s October 10, 2025 Zoom Presentation

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Meeting Number 814 9251 7167  Passcode  880028

Zoom Presentation

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Harvey Laner's: Wanderlust 1955-1958 

Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Monograph No.10,

Remembrances of The Pacific Electric Railway chronicles Harvey

Laner’s first-person experiences riding the last days of the Pacific

Electric’s Red Cars in Southern California. Then, it follows his

participation in the rail car preservation activities following the demise

of Southern California traction, culminating in his being one of the

fourteen founders of the Orange Empire Railway Museum, todays

Southern California Railway Museum.

This video brings the “Wanderlust” chapter of Harvey’s monograph to

life by replacing the photos in the book with actual digitized movie

footage he shot in and around Chicago and the eastern United States

and Canadian cities that still had streetcars and interurbans operating

in the mid-to-late1950s, such as:

 Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee

 London & Port Stanley

 Quebec Railway Light & Power

 Johnstown Traction

 Pittsburgh Railways

 Philadelphia Suburban Transportation

 and many more.

It also includes the railfanning Harvey and his friends did on the SP

narrow gauge in Owens Valley, Nevada Northern in the Kennecott

Copper days and riding the daily SP mixed train on the Tijuana &

Tecate. And Tehachapi and Cajon in the Union Pacific and Santa Fe

“E” and “F” unit days is also well represented.

https://tinyurl.com/CERAthe2ndFriday

Meeting Number 814 9251 7167  Passcode  880028

Zoom Presentation

https://tinyurl.com/CERAthe2ndFriday

Easy Link to Zoom

We will also have a short newscast preceding the regular program.

This program is open to all CERA members, their guests and the public.

Mark this date on your calendar!