Donald Duke Collection

Shop switcher no. 1510 was built in 1901 by the Pacific Electric for use at 7th and Alameda Shops. It is shown here, still in service, as the Torrance Shops yard switcher in 1939. Harold Stewart [...]

Fresh from the Pullman Company is Pacific Electric no. 1240, part of PE’s 1921 equipment upgrade for the Long Beach Line. 1240 is captured here at the Torrance Shops. Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric’s General Electric gas-electrics nos. 1502 and 1502 sit idle in 1939 at Torrance Shops. Donald Duke Collection

Panoramic image of the Calship Terminal at Terminal Island. This facility had three tracks to hold multiple Pacific Electric trains ferrying workers from downtown Los Angeles to the Terminal [...]

This World War II-era shot captures Pacific Electric 0-6-0 steam switcher no. 1506 with a whale-back tender (instead of its normal slope-back version). Note the lamp hood over the tender’s [...]

Pacific Electric freight locomotive no. 1603 pulls a long consist past Dolores Yard on the way south to San Pedro. The unoccupied track was the lead Dolores track, also under wire. Donald Duke [...]

Pacific Electric’s steam switcher no. 1504 came to PE during World War II as Southern Pacific no. 1142. Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric freight locomotive no. 1606 stands by as its engineer throws a switch; on an adjoining track, a Pacific Electric “Calship Special” (carrying shipyard workers from [...]

In this Pacific Electric file photo, steam serves the southern end of Dolores Yard. Trains were assembled here for deployment to dockside at Long Beach and San Pedro harbors. Dolores Yard faded [...]

Since 1922, steam switchers like no. 1508 were a common sight in Pacific Electric yard service since 1922. 1508 was former Southern Pacific no. 1096, which became San Diego & Arizona Eastern [...]