Pacific Electric PCC No. 5023: Dawn to Dusk of a Beauty Queen
By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric’s double end PCCs were arguably the most beautiful PCCs ever built. Unfortunately for PE’s Pullman built PCCs, beauty did not translate into [...]
Colorized 1044 For Balboa
From our friends at The Paragon Agency (publishers of the My American History series) comes this hand-colorized version of the classic image of 1044 bound for Balboa. This image appears in Corona [...]
Pasadena & Pacific Railway: As The Crow Flies
By Ralph Cantos The shortest distance between two points is often described “as the crow flies.” So it was in 1897. That’s when the Pasadena & Pacific Railway wanted to [...]
LATL 3029 at 6th & Rampart, 1947: The “Rails to Rubber Revolution” is about to begin
By Ralph Cantos Los Angeles Transit Lines PCC no. 3029 is seen here working the 3 Line, stopped at 6th & Rampart Blvd. in the Spring of 1947. Trolley Bus overhead is up and bus stop signs [...]
Pacific Electric No. 5120 at West Hollywood: “A dent of things to come”
By Ralph Cantos In a a scene all to typical in post-World War II Los Angeles, Hollywood car no. 5120’s “right of passage” is challenged by a 1947 Cadillac Fleetwood sedan. The [...]
Pacific Electric’s Rear Tower at 6th and Main
By Ralph Cantos In this image, Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 5064 departs the 6th & Main Street elevated station for Glendora. Time was running out for the Northern District by this [...]
Alan Weeks Then and Now – Part 3
By Alan Weeks Well we come to the end of our Nostalgia trip. Pictures 144-4 and 144-5 there are no before and after photos. They are the Northern end of the old 4 track PERY Soto St. Viaduct over [...]
Pacific Electric No. 5011: LA’s PCC Wonderland
By Ralph Cantos In the land of American traction, just four United States cities shared the distinction of having two different transit systems using the modern PCC. Those cities were Los [...]
Alan Weeks’ Then and Now: Part 2
By Alan Weeks Just think of the amazing changes we would see if we could come back in 100 years. These changes are constantly going on around us but slow enough that we don’t notice. It is [...]
