PERYHS Archives

Metropolitan Coach Lines (ex-Pacific Electric) blimp no. 313 leaves the pavement of East Olympic Blvd. (at 9th Street and Hooper). This is at the northern end of the Four Tracks section of the [...]

Metropolitan Coach Lines (ex-Pacific Electric) blimp no. 309 enters very northern end of the Long Beach Line’s Four Tracks section, just south of East Olympic Blvd.. The interurban heads [...]

A damaged Pacific Electric trolley pole is in the process of replacement somewhere on the Long Beach Line. Jack Finn Collection

A pair of Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) blimps pass by Ralphs Grocery Company semi-trailers at 14th Street on the Four Tracks section of the Long Beach Line (Southern [...]

A pair of Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) blimps cross 15th Street at the north end of the Four Tracks section of the Long Beach Line. We believe that this view was taken [...]

The Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society presents the “Pacific Electric Trolley Waltz” from 1906 accompanied by a visual selection from our online image archive. This [...]

Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) blimp no. 1543 at 15th Street on the Four Tracks section of the Long Beach Line. The experimental MTA paint scheme leads a two-car train [...]

Pacific Electric interurban “blimp” no. 318 heads south at 15th Street on the Four Tracks section of the Long Beach Line. Jack Finn Collection

An unidentified Metropolitan Transit Authority blimp (ex-Pacific Electric) passes under the new Santa Monica Freeway elevated section just south of the downtown core. The westbound section of the [...]

A grim prediction for the future of rail operation on the Four Tracks section of the Long Beach Line looms in the background. Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) no. 1537 passes [...]