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Pacific Electric car no. 1245 heads up a Special four-car consist as it meets up with a Special two-car consist lead by no. 1240 at Ganesha Junction in Pomona on Sunday, October 1, 1950. Photo [...]

In this beautiful view taken from a private airplane, the camera looks down on Vernon Yard in the summer of 1964. Twenty-five air-electric PCCs have been removed from Vernon Yard for shipment to [...]

Pacific Electric no. 5010 poses with its front doors wide open, beckoning passengers to board America’s most beautiful PCC. From Ralph Cantos: In this 1948 photo, PE’s fleet of 30 [...]

Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority PCC 3077 (numbers and MTA emblem painted over) is loaded aboard a freighter that will take it to the far-off country of Chile in January of 1964. Once [...]

A moody, somber image by Bruce Ward captures the pathos of the last evening of operation of streetcars in the city of Los Angeles, March 31, 1963, as the Metropolitan Transit Authority (the [...]

A 1958 photo of fish swimming through submerged Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) car bodies off Redondo Beach. From Ralph Cantos: In 1958, two years after LARY home-built K-4 [...]

William Wherry – known to all as Bill – poses for a photograph taken by his wife in the yard of their first home in South Pasadena, in 1937 or 1938. Wherry Family Photo, Charles [...]

A photo postcard from 1955 depicting a Pacific Electric PCC on Brand Boulevard in Glendale. From Ralph Cantos: 955 POST CARD of Beautiful Brand Blvd. GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA: A city. any city, is [...]

Pacific Electric car no. 342 at Colorado and Sierra Madre. The photographer is looking south and the car is getting ready to go northwest on Colorado. The buildings in the background are Turner [...]

Looking northeast from Lake Avenue just south of Colorado Boulevard, car 1135 leads a two car train to downtown Los Angeles via the Oak Knoll line. The building on the right stands on the [...]