Metropolitan Coach Lines no. 1524 westbound on Ocean Avenue and Golden Shore, is seen here turning into Morgan Yard on April 9, 1960. Bruce Ward Image, Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society [...]
Railfan excursion on Metropolitan Coach Lines 498 at East Olympic Blvd at Hooper Ave on May 24th, 1958. Bruce Ward Photograph, Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Collection
Street resurfacing on 7th Street (just west of Alvarado, near Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant) has revealed a stretch of old Los Angeles Railway rail still embedded in the street, more [...]
An inbound 800-class interurban car rolls along the shore line of the blue Pacific at an unknown location. It was a place where the line ran behind houses along the beach. Charles D. Savage [...]
The Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society is extremely gratified by the gifting of key rail artifacts from the Gordon Bachlund Collection. These items will be part of the on-display [...]
Pacific Electric inbound no. 735 at Rose Station in San Marino, September 1951. Note the restaurant in the background, Woody & Eddy’s, was a longtime favorite of San Gabriel Valley [...]
Pacific Electric outbound blimp no. 412 pauses at the San Marino Station, located at Huntington Drive and San Marino Avenue, in 1950. Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society, Mount Lowe [...]
William Wherry – known to all as Bill – poses for a photograph taken by his wife in the yard of their first home in South Pasadena, in 1937 or 1938. Wherry Family Photo, Charles [...]
Pacific Electric steeple cab no. 1544, better known as Electra, rests in retirement at Los Angeles’ Travel Town circa 1955. Electra is best known as having served the city of San Francisco [...]
Upon retirement, Pacific Electric no. 1498 was “presented to the children of Los Angeles by the Pacific Electric Rwy. Co.” (as the plaque reads), where it was used for a time as the [...]
