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By Steve Crise This never-before-published photograph by the late E. Rod Crosley documents the usage of smaller diesel electric locomotives by the Pacific Electric Railway. Here PE 1653 is [...]

By Steve Crise Late in the afternoon in July 1947, eighteen-year-old photographer Donald Duke captured this shot of a Pacific Electric Railway two-car train of “elevens” speeding inbound towards [...]

By Steve Crise Over the years there have been a good number of steam and diesel locomotives displayed along Exposition Boulevard courtesy of Pacific Electric Railway’s Santa Monica Air [...]

By Steve Crise This undated photo by Ken Douglas caught my eye the other day while researching our archive for other samples of Type H cars for a future article. This location seemed somewhat [...]