PERYHS Archives

By Alan Weeks Mike Patris and Steve Crise published a book of their PERY archive photos, before and after. I was really impressed with their work. I decided to try to do the same thing they did [...]

Prepared by Eriks Garsvo 

By Ralph Cantos In all their years of service on the Pacific Electric Railway, only three of PE’s own 1200-class interurbans would retire prematurely. One San Berdoo 12, no. 1206, was [...]

By Ralph Cantos As was always the case on New Years Day on the PE, it was “all hands and cars on deck.” New Years Day 1940 was no exception. With the exception of the 100s (and, [...]

By Charles Wherry My dad worked for PE and at the time of his untimely death in 1952 was an office supervisor working in the Subway Terminal Building at 4th and Hill Streets in downtown Los [...]

Check out what it was like to work for the Los Angeles Transit Lines in March of 1947 with this employee magazine from the archive of Alan Weeks. Click here to download Alan Weeks Collection

By Charles Wherry These three photos also deal with the last hours of rail passenger service on Pacific Electric’s Monrovia-Glendora line. This image has previously been posted on the [...]

By Ralph Cantos Of the 165 PCCs that roamed the streets of Los Angeles, almost all of them served LA’s transit system in obscurity. But nine of the PCCs do stand out for one reason or [...]

By Charles Wherry The two photos on this page are from my collection and depict PE publicity and news accounts of the final day of service on the Monrovia-Glendora line: September 30, 1951. [...]

Here’s a neat animation created by Eriks Garsvo showing a modern-day view of the old Los Angeles River Pacific Electric bridge pilings, with a Then-and-Now animation re-creation.