Steve Crise and Ralph Cantos Collections
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION ! Traction Fan Garry Starre did this very photo interesting comparison of what happens to PCCs after they left Los Angeles. Cars #3001, #3072, #3100, & #3165 have done very well in retirement at OERM. However, the 133 LA PCCs that were sold to Cairo, wound up in "PCC Death Camps" and were turned into "Rolling Zombies"....
Steve Crise and Ralph Cantos Collections
Steve Crise Photo, Steve Crise Collection
Steve Crise of the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society lead a group nighttime photography shoot at the Orange Empire Railway Museum on April 20, 2013. Here is his image of Los Angeles Transit Lines PCC no. 3100.
Steve Crise Photo, Steve Crise Collection
Steve Crise Photo, Steve Crise Collection
Steve Crise of the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society lead a group nighttime photography shoot at the Orange Empire Railway Museum on April 20, 2013. Here is his image of Los Angeles Railway no. 525.
Steve Crise Photo, Steve Crise Collection
Steve Crise Collection
An engraving showing the Ontario & San Antonio Heights Railway Company from the foot of the line, in Ontario, looking north to Upland and Mount Baldy.
From the indispensable ERHA Site:
The line began operating with mule cars in 1887, a mule hauling the little single-truck car from State St.(Ontario) due north to San Antonio Heights, about ten miles north and 1200 feet higher; on the return trip the motive power climbed aboard a tiny trailer and coasted down with the car. When O&SA electrified the line in 1895, the mules became the property of a nearby rancher; the story goes that the temperamental animals pulled the plough fine uphill, but refused to work downhill.
A thirty-acre amusement park was built by the company of San Antonio Heights, with a powerhouse adjoining. Heavy crowds were transported along Euclid Ave. in the early days, for the line connected Ontario with Upland, provided connections between the SP Station at Ontario and the Santa Fe Station at Upland, and cared for the thongs bound for pleasure-seeking at the Park. Euclid Ave. was famous for it divided highway; in the wide center strip was a double line of huge pepper trees, and between the rows of trees, set a grass-covered private way, went the single track of this line.
Owned after electrification by Ontario Electric Company, the line became the property of the Pacific Light & Power Corporation. in a merger in 1908. Mr. William G. Kerckhoff, at that time president of PL&P, energetically pushed the expansion of the O&SA by building its branch to San Bernardino. However, the O&SA was purchased by SP on 13 April 1912 and this line, plus the line from Upland to Pomona, passed into PE hands.
Steve Crise Collection
Pacific Electric: Then and Now at the Pasadena Museum of History Through January 13, 2013
Don't miss "Pacific Electric: Then and Now," curated by Michael Patris and Steve Crise of the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society (PERyHS.org), now on display at the Pasadena Museum of History through January 13, 2013.
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Pacific Electric: Then and Now at the Pasadena Museum of History Through January 13, 2013
Pacific Electric: Then and Now at the Pasadena Museum of History Through January 13, 2013
Steve Crise Photo, Steve Crise Collection
Pacific Electric tower signs for Arcadia and Claremont grace the collection of imagery and artifacts at the Pasadena Museum of History event through January 2013: Pacific Electric Then and Now, presented by Michael Patris and Steve Crise of the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society and Mount Lowe Preservation Society.
Steve Crise Photo, Steve Crise Collection
Steve Crise Photo
Jay Leno, Jim Walker, Steve Crise, Michael Patris at the Pacific Electric Railway: Then & Now book signing at Aerobooks Autobooks (2900 Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA 91506) on December 17, 2011. Jim Walker was there signing his Pacific Electric book from Arcadia's Images of Rail series. Steve Crise was signing Then & Now with co-author Michael Patris. Michael was also there signing his book Postcards from Mount Lowe, also from Arcadia Publishing.
Steve Crise Photo
Steve Crise Collection
Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Collection
Bill Whyte Photo, Steve Crise Collection
The former Pacific Electric 6th and Main platform and trackage is disassembled in this bittersweet image. It is believed this is a crew from the Orange Empire Trolley Museum dismantling a double slip switch for use at the Perris museum.
Bill Whyte Photo, Steve Crise Collection
Bill Whyte Photo, Steve Crise Collection
The former Pacific Electric 6th and Main platform and trackage is disassembled in this bittersweet image. It is believed this is a crew from the Orange Empire Trolley Museum dismantling a double slip switch for use at the Perris museum.
Bill Whyte Photo, Steve Crise Collection
