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Pacific Electric freight locomotive no. 1626 poses next to PE interurban no. 1204, possibly somewhere on the Southern District. The latter’s destination board reads “Los Angeles.”
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Anyone able to offer circa-date thoughts about this given the apparently short-lived pilot beam(s) safety stripes. Furthermore, are those white stripes on a black-painted beam or white/aluminum silver on a PE red-painted beam?
I think it’s white stripes on black paint. I recall seeing a few PE freight motors with this paint job on the Monrovia-Glendora Line in the 1940s. By the time diesels took over, the electric were nearly all in the SP “tiger stripes” scheme.