PERYHS Archives

Pacific Electric Railway Company, Culver City. The date is March 26, 1964. This is the south side and west end of the Culver City depot. The baggage / freight room is in the foreground. The [...]

The gateman’s tower at Santa Fe Avenue. Santa Fe Avenue is to the left. At this point the Pacific Electric crossed the Los Angeles Railway J Line. The date is March 26, 1964. Robert Gaddie [...]

A portion of the Highland – Patton line remained in service during the 1960s. The line operated over private right-of-way between Rialto Avenue and Sierra Way. The right-of-way cut [...]

It’s an unknown date as Pacific Electric no. 110 has its destination sign rolled up to Arlington. However, we believe this photo was taken at 34th and Mountain View in San Bernardino; we [...]

The date is July 11, 1965. Southern Pacific diesel locomotive no. 4614 works some street trackage in San Bernardino. Robert Gaddie Photo, Robert Gaddie Collection

In the 1960s this dilapidated building at 137 South F Street, San Bernardino, was Pacific Electric’s Eastern District operations center. Behind the building was the north throat of the San [...]

The date is November of 1961. This is a eastern-facing view of San Bernardino Avenue at Texas Street in Redlands, and the Redland Heights Citrus Company. From photographer Robert Gaddie: Pacific [...]

The Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society is pleased to announce the donation of the Robert Gaddie Collection to our image archives. In many cases, Robert photographed the images in his [...]

By Ralph Cantos The former Pacific Electric no. 733 poses for the camera in this 1954 photograph. The 733 (now numbered 1733) is in splendid condition. This was the “first repaint” [...]

Here’s an oddball shot – a replica Los Angeles Railway open streetcar running at Travel Town in Griffith Park in August of 1973. Taken by Ed Sikora, this image has it all – [...]