Historical electric service in San José
On the internet there tend to be only a few good sources on the history of streetcar and interurban service in Santa Clara County. There are some good photos, a few maps, and a book "Tracks, Tires, and Wires" by Charles McCaleb. The book can be found at several libraries in the county library system. However, from the view of intimacy with the past, this is sometimes unsatisfying. There are few articles that people can easily reference, and while the old system gets brought up in dicussions from time to time , the actual knowledge of what the system was like and how it functioned is rather poorly communicated. One of the main reasons for this is that electric service in Santa Clara County dissapeared a generation earlier than in larger cities like Oakland, as well as some local reasons. The combination looks something like the following: Far less footage and pictures were recorded of the system because the necessary equipment was much less accessible in...