PERYHS Archives

By Ralph Cantos On the afternoon of April 6, 1956, disabled Los Angeles Transit Lines PCC no. 3035 was being towed from Vernon Yard to South Park Shops by a “Big Bertha” tow truck. [...]

By Ralph Cantos The end has come for the San Vicente Viaduct. It was a cold, dark, and drizzly over cast day, when I snapped this photo with my little “Brownie Box Camera” in January [...]

The end nears for the Pico and San Vicente Viaduct in this late 1961 view of the abandoned bridge. Ralph Cantos Collection

By Ralph Cantos This old, faded photo taken in December 1927 is very unusual and historic. The camera looks in an easterly direction as a 3-car train of Pacific Electric 1100-class suburban cars [...]

Los Angeles Railway PCC no. 3016 is stopped on Broadway at 7th as a “crush load” of passengers board the car in this 1943 view. War time passenger loads brought financial prosperity [...]

Los Angeles Railway PCC no. 3016 models the first of the World War II patriotic-themed paint jobs. In this October 1942 view, the 3016 awaits its departure time at the very busy Dozier & [...]

The south end of Catalina Avenue at Avenue I in Redondo Beach marked the end of the tracks for the PE Del Rey Line, when this area was called Clifton or Clifton by the Sea. This is also the north [...]

Pacific Electric no. 461 heads north on the Oak Knoll Line with a roller sign reading MOUNT LOWE and a dash sign reading RUBIO CANYON in this January, 1935 image; during the last years of [...]

Pacific Electric streetcar no. 350 heads toward Pasadena along East Mariposa Street near North Raymond Avenue just north of Mountain View Cemetery. This is just east of North Fair Oaks and west [...]

Looking up Santa Rosa Avenue (aka Christmas Tree Lane) in Altadena, Pacific Electric no. 1123 heads into Los Angeles via the Pasadena Short Line along East Mariposa Street in 1938. This is just [...]