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By Ralph Cantos Like some animal or human being caught up in a slave labor situation, PE no. 5144 (now operated by “slave masters” Metropolitan Coach Lines) is beginning to show the [...]

By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric car no. 5144 sparkles in the mid-day sun on this very sad day, May 31, 1953. This is the last day of rail service along Santa Monica Blvd. east of Fairfax Ave. As [...]

By Ralph Cantos By 1929, the Los Angeles Railway was desperate for a fare increase. The PUC granted a 2-cent fare increase on the provision that the LARy improve the “Spartan [...]

From traction fan Bill Volkmer comes this interesting photo taken some time between the May 1955 rail abandonments and the end of the W line rail service in late 1956. There is not much [...]

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION ! Traction Fan Garry Starre did this very photo interesting comparison of what happens to PCCs after they left Los Angeles. Cars #3001, #3072, #3100, & #3165 [...]

Red Car California Fruits & Vegetables, a brand of Paul E. Stone, Grower and Shipper, Exeter, California. Courtesy Beachwood Market, Hollywood, California. Steve Crise Photo, Steve Crise Collection

In this 1972 view, one of LA’s once beautiful PCCs shows the terrible effects of three years of battle on the mean streets of Cairo. As the years passed, more and more of the cars would [...]

Steve Crise of the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society lead a group nighttime photography shoot at the Orange Empire Railway Museum on April 20, 2013. Here is his image of Los Angeles [...]

Steve Crise of the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society lead a group nighttime photography shoot at the Orange Empire Railway Museum on April 20, 2013. Here is his image of Los Angeles [...]

Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority PCC no. 3148 rests on standard gauge trucks at Fairbanks Yard in Long Beach, part of a demonstration tour showing PCCs on the still-popular Long Beach [...]