465 at Spring and Sunset
Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 465 on N Line service is captured in this image at Spring and Sunset in January of 1950. Robert Chamberlain Photo, Richard Wilkens Collection
452 on the N Line
Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 452 on the N Line service. Great Standard station in the background! Robert Chamberlin Photo, Richard Wilkens Collection
525 A True Survivor
By Ralph Cantos From rail fan friend Bill Volkmer, comes this nice photo of OERM’s narrow gauge darling car, no. 525, taking a breather at the Bonnie Brae & Beverly Boulevard terminal [...]
800 on the Oak Knoll Line
Pacific Electric no. 800 and two other units head southbound on the Oak Knoll line toward Huntington Drive and El Molino Junction in San Marino on January 1, 1938. Celebrating San Marino’s [...]
702 at El Molino
January 2, 1950: Pacific Electric no. 702 heads up a three-unit train that’s pulling into San Marino’s El Molino Junction. It’s part of that year’s Rose Parade Special [...]
107 at Huntington Drive in San Marino
It’s 1940 and Pacific Electric no. 107 is at San Marino Station (located at Huntington and San Marino Drives). It’s a local car about to make a northbound run on Sierra Madre [...]
740 on the Oak Knoll Line
Pacific Electric car no. 740, 711 and another unit head south bound on the Oak Knoll Line approaching Huntington Drive in San Marino. This is part of the New Years Day rush service to and from [...]
End of the Line for 5144
By Ralph Cantos National Metals & Steel was never a pleasant place to visit for rail fans. Starting about 1955, steam locomotives, mostly Southern Pacific, starting arriving at on Terminal [...]
The Last A Car Southbound at 7th and Hill
This amazing Roy Finley photo captures the railfan riders of the final Los Angeles Railway A Line car (no. 90) on June 30th, 1946, at 4AM at the intersection of 7th and Hill streets in downtown [...]
Going Down with Trolley Poles Held High
By Ralph Cantos Like the mighty ocean liner “Titanic,” the once great Pacific Electric Railway struck and iceberg in the form of the Highway Department, a City that didn’t give [...]
