By Ralph Cantos THE CHANCE MEETING: This remarkable photograph taken on July 21, 1940 during a Railroad Boosters Fan Trip can only be classified as “fantastic” from a rail fan point [...]
By Ralph Cantos This fantastic faded shot of Pacific Electric Box Motors Nos. 1457 & 1458 working MU on the Santa Monica Air Line was taken about 1948. The two units have just crossed the [...]
By Ralph Cantos This beautiful photo was taken by the then-16-year-old Roger Titus. The date of this Fan Trip was November 7, 1954, and the 1165 poses for the camera at Inglewood Cemetery. All 16 [...]
By Ralph Cantos Box motor #1458 (Pullman Car Company 1913) rolls along the Northern Districts 4 tracks in this 1948 view. The 1458 was built new as a passenger car for Southern Pacific’s [...]
By Ralph Cantos The management of Nasty City Lines NEVER missed an opportunity to ridicule or denigrate the staple of American urban transportation, the city streetcar . NCL’s “Reign [...]
By Ralph Cantos By the mid 1930s, the Pacific Electric was operating a fleet of more than 500 rail cars. The newest of them, the 100s, had just arrived from St. Louis Car Company in 1930; all 160 [...]
By Ralph Cantos Its no secret that from about 1910 onward, Southern California’s budding movie industry was very fond of LA’s streetcars of both the Pacific Electric and Los Angeles [...]
By Ralph Cantos Last runs of any streetcar or interurban line is usually a sad, but uneventful occasion. However, that was not the case on Tuesday afternoon, September 29, 1953, when Pacific [...]
By Ralph Cantos This remarkable photograph from a Keystone Cops silent film made around 1918 shows Los Angeles Railway “Maggies” nos. 7 and 1 putting the “squeeze” on an [...]
By Ralph Cantos As the old saying goes, “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.” In this case, the saying goes, “One city’s junk is another city’s [...]
