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Pacific Electric Birney no. 379 on the La Rambla line in San Pedro. Ralph Melching Photo Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric Birney no. 348 rests at the end of the line at Seaside Park in Long Beach (just west of Morgan Yard). Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric (former Southern Pacific commuter unit) no. 4636 clears the bascule bridge and rolls into San Pedro. The bridge was always down unless a ship signaled to pass into the West [...]

Pacific Electric interurban no. 1363, bound for Los Angeles from Santa Ana in 1940, rolls along the single track right-of-way near the Hargraves stop. Since the baggage/express section was on the [...]

Pacific Electric express no. 1370 and interurban no. 1208 pose at Santa Ana Station in 1947. Charles D. Savage Photo Donald Duke Collection

In 1948 the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association scheduled a weekend of excursions over many Pacific Electric lines. Here is car no. 1057 crossing the  single-track trestle bridge over the Rio [...]

644 pulls into the Walker passenger shelter on the Whittier Line. Whittier service was cut back on September 1, 1935, to a single run to Los Angeles and return. This run was finally discontinued [...]

The wire stringing team at work along the Yorba Linda section of the Whittier – Yorba Linda – Fullerton Line. At the time the rails were not in, so horses handled the towers. Donald [...]

Pacific Electric interurbans (led by no. 1370) head south toward Santa Ana on the busy Southern Division. Modified based on comment Harley Kelso Photo Donald Duke Collection

A Santa Ana train bound for Los Angeles takes the outside track at Slauson Junction. Donald Duke Collection