1299 Excursion on Exposition
Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection
Pacific Electric business car no. 1299 rolls past the clocktower at the University of Southern California on Exposition Blvd. in this image dated September 27, 1953. Commenter indicates this car may never have been sold to Metropolitan Coach Lines and thus remained Pacific Electric property until a later date.
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Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection
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I believe that PE 1299 never became an MCL car. It was one of the few cars, if not the only, car that PE retained until its retirement and sale to private individuals around 1959.
I have a home movie of 1299 going through Arcadia on the former SP Duarte Branch, which was never electrified, and which out-lived the PE main line in that area. It was propelled by an SP 4600-class diesel switcher. This would have been around 1957, because as I recall, my parents bought their 8 mm movie camera in 1957.
PERy 1299 was the P.E.’s last official car, retired in 1958 and sold to Walter Abbenseth and Norman Newcomb. It was displayed at the fairgrounds in Pomona until after Norman’s death when it was moved to the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris in 1998. It is currently operational as a trailer, much as it was during those times without overhead wire. The motors remain, but await restoration.
http://oerm.org/pages/pe1299.html