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By Ralph Cantos Its no secret that from about 1910 onward, Southern California’s budding movie industry was very fond of LA’s streetcars of both the Pacific Electric and Los Angeles [...]

By Ralph Cantos Last runs of any streetcar or interurban line is usually a sad, but uneventful occasion. However, that was not the case on Tuesday afternoon, September 29, 1953, when Pacific [...]

By Ralph Cantos This remarkable photograph from a Keystone Cops silent film made around 1918 shows Los Angeles Railway “Maggies” nos. 7 and 1 putting the “squeeze” on an [...]

By Ralph Cantos As the old saying goes, “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.” In this case, the saying goes, “One city’s junk is another city’s [...]

By Ralph Cantos From 1953 until 1958, and for endless decades of reruns, Los Angeles City Hall was know to millions of people around the world as “The Daily Planet Building” in the [...]

In this 1906 postcard from the Pacific Railroad Society Collection, we are looking east on Oregon Avenue, which was the original name of Santa Monica Boulevard in this part of Los Angeles, [...]

By Ralph Cantos Several great cities in North America, 27 of them to be exact, had one thing in common: state of the art city rail transportation – the PCC streetcar! Los Angeles was the [...]

From an Acme News Pictures photo from October 24, 1939: Los Angeles, Calif. — Frank Carter, 35, of Torrance, Calif, died as a Pacific Electric train plowed into this new (Packard) sedan and [...]

By Ralph Cantos When the first LAMTA (Many Trolley Abandonments) seized control of LA’s transit operations on March 3, 1958, the first major announcement to affect rail operations was that [...]

By Ralph Cantos In a more recent photo taken of “retired” line car #3758, the former Pacific Electric no. 758 is a true survivor. Long live these remarkable cars. Ralph Cantos Collection