-PE Artifacts

Pacific Electric Token

Posted on: March 29th, 2011 by PERyHS 1 Comment

 

Gift of Nancy Steinbaugh, Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Collection

Gift of Nancy Steinbaugh, Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Collection


 
A classic Pacific Electric Railway token, good for one fare. Donated to PERyHS.org by Nancy Steinbaugh of Covina, California.
 
Gift of Nancy Steinbaugh, Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Collection
 
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PE Brass Match Strikers

Posted on: December 14th, 2009 by PERyHS No Comments

 

Mount Lowe Preservation Society Collection

Mount Lowe Preservation Society Collection

A pair of cast brass match strikers which graced the Pacific Electric Railway red cars.

Mount Lowe Preservation Society Inc. Collection

Dinner Plate Remnant from Echo Mountain

Posted on: December 11th, 2009 by PERyHS No Comments

 

Michael Patris Photo, Mount Lowe Preservation Society Collection

Michael Patris Photo, Mount Lowe Preservation Society Collection

A Pacific Electric-emblazoned shard of broken dinner china, discovered in an Echo Mountain dump in the late 1970s by professional writer, historian and collector Caesar J. Milch and sold via eBay to the Mount Lowe Preservation Society Inc. in 2009.

Michael Patris Photo
Mount Lowe Preservation Society Inc. Collection

Editor's note: a previous notation on this item accidentally confused it with another PE china shard in the MLPSI collection, which was found in a dump near Alpine Tavern in the mid-1950s.