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In this 1902 view, the camera looks to the east as Los Angeles & Pacific car no. 234 waits its departure for Venice and Santa Monica in front of the LAP Depot at 316 West 4th Street, between [...]

At the very busy intersection of Main – Spring -& 9th Streets, an old Los Angeles Railway manned pole tower (right) kept streetcar switch movements running smoothly. In the shot taken [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines car no. 431 working the B line at the very busy intersection of 9th – Main & Spring Streets. The date is October 23, 1948. Andy Payne Photo, Ralph Cantos Collection

Los Angeles Transit Lines car no. 687 rolls inbound on the H line just east of Hoover Street. From Ralph Cantos: The H line was very popular, and was well patronized, but the powers in charge at [...]

In this 1937 view at Wilcox Avenue in North Hollywood , the crew of westbound Pacific Electric no. 849 take a few minutes before continuing on to Canoga Park. The upgraded “Valley [...]

The seldom seen B-2 truck of PE PCC #5009 undergoes “heavy repairs” at Toluca Yard. From Ralph Cantos: After the Hollywood Boulevard-Beverly Hills line was abandoned in Sept of 1954, [...]

An engraving showing the Ontario & San Antonio Heights Railway Company from the foot of the line, in Ontario, looking north to Upland and Mount Baldy. From the indispensable ERHA Site: The [...]

The date is July 1959 and Fletcher Trestle – home of thousands of photos capturing the Glendale Line of the Pacific Electric – is about to be no more. From contributor Ralph Cantos: [...]

This circa-1948 photo features Pacific Electric no. 1221 on the newly electrified, ex-Southern Pacific tracks between Baldwin Park and Lone Hill Junction. Note 1221 is sporting trolley wheels, [...]

Pacific Electric steeple cab no. 1544, better known as Electra, rests in retirement at Los Angeles’ Travel Town circa 1955. Electra is best known as having served the city of San Francisco [...]