Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric Railway Post Office units nos. 1405 and 1406 stand idle awaiting the afternoon mail runs at the Los Angeles Street terminal. Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric Railway Post Office no. 1407 speeds south between San Pedro and Long Beach as part of service between Los Angeles and Long Beach. Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric Railway Post Office no. 1405 has just unloaded its sacks of mail at the 6th and Main postal center, just off Los Angeles Street at Sixth. Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric built eight “bobber” single-truck cabooses at the Torrance Shops in 1921. Number 1957 was captured here in 1937. Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric’s first shops were the former Los Angeles Railway shops at 7th & Alameda. PE later moved to the Torrance Shops in the 1920s. Modified based on comment Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric interurban no. 444 was acquired with the purchase of the Los Angeles & Redondo Railway. It was originally built in 1906 and is shown here at the 7th & Alameda Shops. [...]

Pacific Electric wooden steeple cab no. 1551 was built by the Los Angeles & Redondo Shops in 1908 and acquired by Huntington in the merger. She was used as a switcher at the 7th and Alameda [...]

Pacific Electric center-entrance car no. 308 after a wreck, just prior to rebuilding at the 7th and Alameda shops. Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric shop switcher no. 1503 was built by the Torrance Shops in 1920 to shift cars to the transfer table and to spot equipment. It was powered by an Alco gasoline engine. Harold [...]

An aerial view of Pacific Electric’s massive Torrance Shops, completed in 1920. Donald Duke Collection