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By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric no. 758 – looking rather tired and beat to HELL. The former PE Hollywood car #758 (St. Louis Car Co. 1928) sits forlorn and most likely, out of service, in [...]

By Ralph Cantos When the City of Los Angeles and the Highway Department ganged up on the Pacific Electric and condemned Aliso Street for Freeway construction, that effectively killed off [...]

By Ralph Cantos This remarkable old photo, taken around 1908-09, shows a Los Angeles Pacific trolley at the end of the single-track Laurel Canyon Line. The camera looks south as one of the two [...]

By Ralph Cantos What a difference 30 years makes. It’s now 1954 and Gardner Junction is in the last months of its life. Three Hollywood cars can be seen in this photo. For reasons lost to [...]

By Ralph Cantos Gardner Junction was so named because of its location at Gardner Street and Sunset Boulevard. At this point, the LAUREL CANYON line diverged from the Hollywood/Beverly Hills main [...]

When I was fifteen I hiked up this abandoned railway with two friends. Took my trusty old Box Camera. Then again my father and I hiked it in 1949. The pictures are not that great but the historic [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines (former Los Angeles Railway) car no. 604 with “Townsend Ave / Eagle Rock” sign pauses on the 5 Line at Colorado Boulevard and Townsend Avenue on December 22, [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines car no. 950 on the 5 Line catches amazing light in this image taken November 1, 1947. The location is Colorado Boulevard and Townsend Avenue. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines car no. 615 with “Inglewood / Hawthorne” signage rests at the 5 Line terminal in Eagle Rock on September 11, 1948. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

Los Angeles Transit Lines car no. 950 on 5 Line service (Eagle Rock) is photographed at Eagle Rock Boulevard and Merton on November 30, 1948. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection