PERYHS Archives

Late-teens Pacific Electric Railway magazine ad, just donated by long time friend and supporter of the Mount Lowe Preservation Society, Inc., Cyndia Williams, owner of Old Towne Antiques in San [...]

Unknown PE conductor’s cabinet photo from the 1920s, taken by Hartsook Photographers with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Porterville, Bakersfield, Oakland, Visalia, Sacramento, [...]

An unissued stock certificate from the Los Angeles, Pasadena and Glendale Railway Company. Donated to the Mount Lowe Preservation Society by Rick Wright. Gift of Rick Wright, Mount Lowe [...]

Pacific Electric tower signs for Arcadia and Claremont grace the collection of imagery and artifacts at the Pasadena Museum of History event through January 2013: Pacific Electric Then and Now, [...]

Los Angeles Railway car and tracks pass the Golden State Hotel and the Tacoma Bar on November 1, 1911, which is believed to be looking north at the corner of 5th and Central Streets in this real [...]

Pacific Electric no. 1299 rolls past Claremont Tower on a Railroad Boosters tour held June 2, 1951. Ralph E. Melching Photo, Pacific Railroad Society Museum Collection

A view of Court Flight, the funicular railway that served Court Street (so named because of proximity to the downtown courts) at Broadway, photographed by Chard Walker. The date is February 14, [...]

Pacific Electric car no. 1299 rolls down what appears to be Euclid Avenue in Upland in 1951 in this stunning image originally taken by Robert T. McVay. Robert T. McVay Photo, Norm Suydam Collection

By Robert L. Davis With attention now given to the LA-Pasadena Light Rail line, I thought I’d better write some of my remembrances of the Monrovia line, which shared the Pasadena lines as [...]

A classic image of Charles Merritt (C. M.) Pierce, famed operator of the Los Angeles Pacific Balloon Route Excursion. This image comes from a broadside donated by Bobby McDearmon to the Mount [...]