Get Out and Push Railroad

Wilmington & Long Beach Rapid Transit Railroad
(a.k.a. Get Out and Push Railroad)
The Get Out and Push Railroad in 1887, "with seats all around and a place in the center for baggage"[1]
Overview
LocaleCalifornia
Dates of operation1882 (1882)–1887 (1887)
SuccessorSouthern Pacific Railroad

The Get Out and Push Railroad (formally, the Wilmington & Long Beach Rapid Transit Railroad) was a 19th-century street railway, connecting Wilmington, California, to the Willmore area of Long Beach, California, which requested its patrons to assist trains over the steeper parts of the route.[2]

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