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By Charles Wherry My dad worked for PE and at the time of his untimely death in 1952 was an office supervisor working in the Subway Terminal Building at 4th and Hill Streets in downtown Los [...]

Check out what it was like to work for the Los Angeles Transit Lines in March of 1947 with this employee magazine from the archive of Alan Weeks. Click here to download Alan Weeks Collection

By Charles Wherry These three photos also deal with the last hours of rail passenger service on Pacific Electric’s Monrovia-Glendora line. This image has previously been posted on the [...]

By Ralph Cantos Of the 165 PCCs that roamed the streets of Los Angeles, almost all of them served LA’s transit system in obscurity. But nine of the PCCs do stand out for one reason or [...]

By Charles Wherry The two photos on this page are from my collection and depict PE publicity and news accounts of the final day of service on the Monrovia-Glendora line: September 30, 1951. [...]

By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric PCC no. 5023 shows the the terrible effects of 4 years storage in the dank confines of PE’s Subway Terminal tunnel. Some of the cars looked somewhat better, [...]

Pacific Electric PCC no. 5019 is photographed while testing on the Pasadena via Oak Knoll Line inbound at Huntington Hotel. The date is February 25, 1941. Phillips C. Kauke Photo, Phillips C. [...]

Pacific Electric no. 1218 rolls south near omnipresent oil derricks in this immediate postwar image dated August 24, 1946. Note the “Newport Beach Limited” sign. Phillips C. Kauke [...]

Pacific Electric interurban no. 1100 poses at Shamrock Avenue in Monrovia in this undated image by Alan Weeks. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

By Ralph Cantos These two photos, taken about ten years and ten thousand miles apart, are remarkably similar in the fact that they both show the fantastic ability of PE’s Hollywood cars to [...]