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Pacific Electric interurban no. 996 passes through Echo Park at Cerro Gordo on February 12, 1950. Alan Weeks Collection

Pacific Electric streetcar no. 108 rolls down the Echo Park Line at Cerro Gordo in 1948. Alan Weeks Collection

Pacific Electric “blimp” interurban no. 4509 is captured in Torrance. This ex-Northwestern Pacific no. 384 unit was shipped south by Southern Pacific in 1942 and reworked to become PE [...]

Pacific Electric PCC no. 5028 heads north on the Glendale Line at Riverside and Monte Sano in 1952. Note the Brew 102 billboard in the background. Modified based on comment Alan Weeks Collection

Pacific Electric freight service in South Los Angeles on April 11, 1953, led by locomotive nos. 1620, 1631 and 1326. The location is South LA Junction. Alan Weeks Photo Alan Weeks Collection

Specially chartered Pacific Electric interurbans led by no. 1216 pause at the Old Soldiers’ Home (now, the Veterans Administration Hospital) in West Los Angeles on the Sawtelle Line, May 9, [...]

Pacific Electric interurbans (led by nos. 999 and 993) idle outside the Ocean Park Car House on the Western Division. Alan Weeks Collection

Pacific Electric no. 104 and its motorman-conductor await passengers for the run to Laurel Canyon in this Western Division image. Alan Weeks Collection

Stacks of carbodies signal the end of rail service in Los Angeles with these former Pacific Electric streetcars neatly arranged at a Terminal Island scrapyard. Jack Finn Collection

Former Pacific Electric Echo Park Line 100-series streetcars idle at the terminus in Vera Cruz, Mexico on July 23, 1958. Many ex-PE units were sold to operations around the world after rail [...]