Possibly Ernie Leo Photo, Craig Rasmussen Collection
Pacific Electric car no. 342 at Colorado and Sierra Madre. The photographer is looking south and the car is getting ready to go northwest on Colorado. The buildings in the background are Turner and Steven's Mortuary on the left (still there) and the building on the right was a PE ticket office / stop and is now Fedde Fine Furniture.
Possibly Ernie Leo Photo, Craig Rasmussen Collection
Ralph Cantos Collection
Pacific Electric no. 1001 and Los Angeles Railway no. 536 sit together at Travel Town in 1956. (Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 1160 sits behind 536.)
The little tree between the two cars would later grow up to be big enough to blow over and destroy 536 years later.
Ralph Cantos Collection, Craig Rasmussen Collection
H. L. Kelson Photo, Craig Rasmussen Collection, Jack Finn Collection
A trio of Pacific Electric interurbans (led by no. 1370) roll southbound on the Four Tracks section of the Southern Division in 1944. This image was taken by Harley Kelso, a Southern Pacific fireman.
H. L. Kelso Photo
Jack Finn Collection
Craig Rasmussen Collection
Jack Finn Collection, Joe Moir Collection, Craig Rasmussen Collection
Pacific Electric interurbans pause for passengers (led by unit no. 1137) while construction crews labor on the erection of the Firestone Blvd. Viaduct on the Four Tracks Line in the Southern Division in 1935. This was a WPA project.
Jack Finn Collection via Joe Moir Collection
Craig Rasmussen Collection
George Chope Photo, Craig Rasmussen Collection, Jack Finn Collection
A trio of Pacific Electric interurbans (led by no. 1217) roll past 95th Street in this action shot from the Southern Division taken on February 22, 1948. Graham Yard is to the left of this image.
George Chope Photo
Jack Finn Collection
Craig Rasmussen Collection
Robert Loewing Photo, Jack Finn Collection, Craig Rasmussen Collection
Pacific Electric interurban no. 314 pauses at Watts as part of Long Beach Limited service on the Southern Division in 1949. Photographer Robert Loewing was a motorman with the Pacific Electric, starting in 1942 in mainly the Western District; he ultimately retired from the RTD around 1981.
Robert Loewing Photo
Jack Finn Collection
Craig Rasmussen Collection
