PERYHS Archives

Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 1276 sits idle at the passenger loading zone on Eagle Rock Boulevard, just south of Colorado, in this undated 5 Line image. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

Los Angeles Transit Lines car no. 1431 rounds the corner at Colorado and Eagle Rock Boulevards to head south on the 5 Line in this undated image. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 1420 pauses at the terminus at Eagle Rock and Colorado Boulevards in this undated 5 Line photo. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 1277 on 5 Line service passes through the intersection of Broadway and Sunset in this image dated May 31, 1949. Bozzani remains a family-owned brand to this day with [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 1269 on 5 Line service pauses at the terminus, located at Eagle Rock and Colorado Boulevards in Eagle Rock. The image is undated. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

Pacific Electric PCC no. 5023 heads southbound on Brand Boulevard, passing just before the McMahon’s Furniture store, which this Los Angeles Times article details as having been at 225 [...]

By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric’s 100-class cars built in 1930 were often referred to as “double-truck Birneys.” The late Ira L. Swett described them as “several cuts [...]

Pacific Electric Hollywood cars nos. 707 and 737 meet in Kester, in the San Fernando Valley, in 1945. M. D. McCarter Image / Collection

Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Blimp No. 312 heads southbound at the Lynwood station on January 28, 1956. Today this location is under the 105 Freeway; the station would be located [...]

Pacific Electric nos. 5161 and 5025 meet at Ferncroft Road on the Glendale-Burbank Line on May 4, 1955. Allen W. Styffe Photo, Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Collection