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By Ralph Cantos The September 1951 abandonment of Pacific Electric’s Northern District brought about by freeway construction (in particular, the 10/101/5 interchange in East Los Angeles) [...]

Pacific Electric PCCs nos. 5021 and 5028 are captured on Brand Boulevard at Broadway in Glendale. The cars are headed southbound; the Alex Theater obelisk is seen in the background, but not the [...]

Pacific Electric interurban no. 1100 stops at the Artesia passenger shelter during what appears to be a fan trip on the Santa Ana Line. The date is October 5, 1950. L.L. Bonney Photo, Steve Crise [...]

An unidentified Pacific Electric interurban rumbles through the sleepy town of Playa Del Rey as a classic PE wig-wag tolls on the same street as the Del Rey Market and Del Rey Drugs. The PE [...]

Ralph Melching’s December 24, 1939, image at trackside of the small waterfront community of Playa Del Rey, with the Pacific Electric station to the left and housing development on the [...]

An inbound 800-class interurban car rolls along the shore line of the blue Pacific at an unknown location. It was a place where the line ran behind houses along the beach. Charles D. Savage [...]

By Ralph Cantos When Metropolitan Coach Lines purchased the passenger operations of the Pacific Electric, the sale included several hundred buses from three manufacturers: GM, WHITE, and TWIN [...]

By Ralph Cantos As the old saying goes, “ONE PHOTO IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS” — in this case, a split photo provided by Gary Starre. When LA’s PCCs made their last runs in the [...]

By Ralph Cantos Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority PCC no. 3046 swings onto Florence Avenue at the south end of Huntington Park’s central business district. This beautiful photo [...]

By Ralph Cantos Los Angeles Transit Lines PCC no. 3010 takes a little spot time at Rowan Loop at the east end of the P line in this 1948 view. The head sign on the 3010 reads: P FIRST & [...]