PERYHS Archives

  Metropolitan Coach Lines (ex-Pacific Electric) car no. 5166 leads two other units in this undated image captured during an Electric Railway Association (ERA) charter.   L. Swanson [...]

  Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) car no. 1815 (note the black number lettering) pauses for passengers next to blimp no. 498 at the Catalina Terminal in August 1958. [...]

  Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) streetcar no. 1815 rolls through a Southern District oil patch as part of a railfan special. Note the railfan applied [...]

  Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) streetcar no. 1812 stops for a photograph opportunity as part of a railfan special some time in the 1956-1959 timeframe. [...]

  Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) streetcar no. 1812 cruises through an unnamed residential location likely in the Southern District as part of a railfan [...]

Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) streetcar no. 1807 waits for railfans to board at a 6th and Main Street Station platform for a special charter to Long Beach some [...]

  Famed Disney animator Ward Kimball walks the rails before the old Pacific Electric Palms station as part of the “Save Our Station” (SOS) initiative that ultimately resulted in [...]

  Pacific Electric cars (lead by no. 707) head westbound on Venice Blvd. at the Helms Bakery stop. The image is dated 1949.   Alan Weeks Collection

  Pacific Electric’s interurban, decorated for the United States Maritime Commission as no. 345, is captured in this (likely) wartime image at the 7th Street Yards.   Alan Weeks [...]

  Pacific Electric PCC car no. 5026 turns southbound onto Brand Blvd. from Glenoaks Blvd. in this Glendale image dated May 15, 1952.   Alan Weeks Collection