PERYHS Archives

  Los Angeles Railway crane car no. 9225 sits over the maintenance pit at the LARy car barn.   Jack Finn Collection

  Los Angeles Railway emergency car no. 9310 heads out past the City Ford dealership on its way to a repair.   Jack Finn Collection

  A pair of Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) N Line streetcars pass one another at the south entrance to Los Angeles Chinatown on Broadway. The Terminal Annex building with [...]

  A Los Angeles Railway 7 Line streetcar rolls north of 2nd Street on Spring Street, passing by the massive Los Angeles Times building as it makes its way on a hazy Los Angeles morning. [...]

From early childhood trips on the P. E., Railroad Boosters fan trips, riding a three-car train from Hollywood Boulevard and Vermont Avenue to the Rose Parade and rail fanning around the system [...]

Jack Whitmeyer recalls his experiences of the P.E. with particular emphasis on Riverside from 1934 to 1942. This monograph also covers San Bernardino and the San Bernardino – Los Angeles RPO. 56 [...]

Charles Seims recalls his experiences discovering the P. E.’s Mount Lowe Line 20 years after its abandonment and his attempts to recover, record and preserve its artifacts in subsequent years. [...]

Containing an economic analysis if P. E. operations up to the beginning of World War II, a photo essay, “Steam to the Rescue” covering the extensive use of steam power by the P.E. during the war, [...]

A native of Redondo Beach, with family members involved with the Main Street and Agricultural Park Railroad, LARY, LATL, LAMTA, SCRTD, and MTA, and living through the demise and rebirth of [...]

Known to his friends as “Der Fliegender Hollander” (The Flying Dutchman) because he didn’t seem to have a home and could always be seen riding the Pacific Electric, Bill Arnold still found time [...]