Pacific Electric Catalina Special Parlor Car no. 1254 at San Pedro, September 26, 1936. The car is ex-O&C and Southern Pacific nos. 219.
© 1936 by Phillips C. Kauke, Stan Kistler Collection
Pacific Electric Rose Parade Special (cars nos. 1218 and 1206) parked on North Lake Avenue, across from the AT&SF crossing, January 1, 1937.
William Schaefer Photo via Phillips C. Kauke, Stan Kistler Collection
Pacific Electric 1057 inbound on the Alhambra – Temple City Line near Ascot Speedway, March 29, 1941.
© 1941 by Phillips C. Kauke, Stan Kistler Collection
Pacific Electric 1031 at Macy Street Shops, Los Angeles, March 28, 1937.
© 1937 by Phillips C. Kauke, Stan Kistler Collection
Railroad Boosters tour duty, Pacific Electric no. 803 at Hermosillo, September 8, 1940.
© Phillips C. Kauke, Stan Kistler Collection
Pacific Electric 748 painted as a “Valley Seven” at North Sherman Way, San Fernando, in an image dated December 1, 1940.
© 1940 by Phillips C. Kauke, Stan Kistler Collection
Pacific Electric 560 at Macy Street Yard in an image dated January 1, 1939.
© 1939 by Phillips C. Kauke, Stan Kistler Collection
Pacific Electric no. 163 shuttle car at the Torrance Shops for employees only. The image is dated August 11, 1936.
© 1936 by Phillips C. Kauke, Stan Kistler Collection
By Ralph Cantos
The former Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 711, now renumbered to 5161 and looking “as good as new,” rolls along Hollywood Boulevard at La Brea Avenue in this undated photo.
Ralph Cantos Collection
By Ralph Cantos
Freshly outshopped Pacific Electric no. 711 is seen here at West Hollywood yard in 1941 awaiting an appointment with a metal surgeon at the Torrance Shops hospital for some reconstructive facial surgery on its handsome face. What ever the 711 hit, it must have been big and heavy to do this type of damage to these sturdy cars. Had this accident happened ten years later, the 711, (by then renumbered to 5161) would have been dispatched to the SP’s Alhambra Shops for scrapping.
Ralph Cantos Collection