Ralph Cantos Collection
Los Angeles Railway car no. 285 is captured on either experimental trucks or "shop trucks" while wearing 9 Line signage. According to Ralph Cantos:
The trucks really change the appearance of the car. It is possible that the #285 was on "shop trucks" ,but it looks like she is "in service"
Ralph Cantos Collection
Duncan Still
January 4, 2013
INTERURBANS SPECIAL #12 shows a photo of 285 with these trucks which were identified as being Brill 77-E trucks. The caption for the photo states that these trucks were previously under car 950, and car 1151 before that.
Bob Davis
January 4, 2013
Presumably the Brill 77 trucks were more expensive than the arch-bar trucks that nearly all of the Type B and Type C cars had, even though the Brills probably rode better.