H Line Rails on Heliotrope Boulevard (1996)
By Ralph Cantos After the very unpopular 1947 Los Angeles Transit Lines abandonment of the H line, the City Of Los Angeles paved over unneeded rails of the well constructed line including [...]
543 at Country Club Drive and Olympic Boulevard
By Ralph Cantos Los Angeles Railway car no. 543 swings off of Country Club Drive onto Olympic Blvd. heading for its terminal at Mullen Street – directly across from Los Angeles High School [...]
Trolley Wire Protectors
By Ralph Cantos In this photo, you can see the trolley wire protector that spans the overhead. These protectors were everywhere there was streetcar or trolley coach overhead. Believe it or not, [...]
1918 GMC on the Alpine Division (1941)
L.T. Gotchy shot this image of a 1918 GMC Model 16, ¾-ton wooden flare-board express bodied truck back on March 16, 1941 atop Echo Mountain. The vehicle is facing north along the Alpine Division [...]
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Posted Rail Artifacts from the Gordon Bachlund Collection
The Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society is extremely gratified by the gifting of key rail artifacts from the Gordon Bachlund Collection. These items will be part of the on-display [...]
Pacific Electric Waiting Room, Fair Oaks and Colorado, 1903
The intersection of Fair Oaks and Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, looking at the southwest corner and the Pacific Electric Railway ticket office and passenger waiting room in 1903. The PE car is [...]
1267 and 9007 at Union Station Loop
Electrified transportation dominates this scene taken in 1951, across the street from the Los Angeles Transit Line’s Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal loop. H-4 class car no. 1267 [...]
1299 at the End of the Wire
It’s July 4, 1954, and Pacific Electric Business Car no. 1299 pauses briefly at North Long Beach on the former Newport Beach Line. The overhead trolley wire ends here, about 200 feet south [...]
Passing Arcadia Tower at Speed
The Pacific Electric whizzes past Arcadia Tower in this undated image by Jack Whitmeyer. With all the construction in the area lately, the Gold Line Extension will be going by this area once [...]
