Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Collection

Donald Duke in a self-portrait before Pacific Electric no. 1001 at Travel Town circa 1955. 1001 now resides at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris. Donald Duke Photo, Pacific Electric [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) car no. 536 sits peacefully in its final resting place at Los Angeles Travel Town circa 1960. As noted in this post, 536 would suffer an ignoble [...]

The past comes into view in this blended image of contemporary 6th and Main Streets in Los Angeles with an exact-location match featuring Pacific Electric 1051 from the Jack Finn Collection. [...]

Heading outbound past the Lamanda Park Tower, a hazy day hides the nearby mountains as the PE heads up north Sierra Madre Boulevard past the Santa Fe tracks parallel to Walnut Street on its way [...]

Pacific Electric no. 1121 heads out of Lamanda Park (East Pasadena) toward Sierra Madre from Lamanda Park Junction in March of 1935. Note the penny scale and the PE employee’s phone booth. [...]

The City of Long Beach commissioned local artist Patrick Vogel to create this rendition of Pacific Electric no. 1001 as a new installation at the refurbished Orizaba Park, which is bisected by [...]

Three scans of a US Maritime Commission Calship Victory Specials Timetable, effective April 30, 1943. The Pacific Electric operated USMC “blimp” service between downtown Los Angeles [...]

Two sides of a United States Maritime Commission ridership token for use by CalShip employees to get between downtown Los Angeles and the CalShip yards at Terminal Island. Pacific Electric [...]

Jay Leno, Jim Walker, Steve Crise, Michael Patris at the Pacific Electric Railway: Then & Now book signing at Aerobooks Autobooks (2900 Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA 91506) on December 17, [...]

The City of Rancho Cucamonga, California, celebrated the re-opening of the Pacific Electric Trail (built upon the former PE right-of-way throughout the city) on December 7, 2011, at the trailhead [...]