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Upon retirement, Pacific Electric no. 1498 was “presented to the children of Los Angeles by the Pacific Electric Rwy. Co.” (as the plaque reads), where it was used for a time as the [...]

Donald Duke in a self-portrait before Pacific Electric no. 1001 at Travel Town circa 1955. 1001 now resides at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris. Donald Duke Photo, Pacific Electric [...]

From Ralph Cantos: The center of Downtown LA was 7th & Broadway. In this 1942 postcard, 2 LARY H class cars head east on 7th Street, while another car heads north on Broadway. 7th & [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) car no. 536 sits peacefully in its final resting place at Los Angeles Travel Town circa 1960. As noted in this post, 536 would suffer an ignoble [...]

As submitted by Ralph Cantos, this image taken by Alan Weeks shows Los Angeles Railway car no. 950 posing for the camera. Traction historian Duncan Still has pointed out that the 950 sits on the [...]

Here’s a terrific photo by Raymond E. Younghans, capturing L.T. Gotchy on a milk box in the middle of Temple Street, snapping Los Angeles Railway cars (S Line H-3 and W Line 1500) on [...]

Pacific Electric no. 1001 and Los Angeles Railway no. 536 sit together at Travel Town in 1956. (Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 1160 sits behind 536.) The little tree between the two cars would [...]

Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority no. 1503 (former Pacific Electric no. 304) suffers an ignoble fate after losing control while descending the viaduct ramp at the 6th and Main Street [...]

Former Pacific Electric streetcar no. 100 is captured as part of Veracruz’s transit system (Mexico), now renumbered as 205, in June of 1957. A. M. Payne Photo, Ralph Cantos Collection

Ralph Cantos found this photo in an antique shop in Santa Monica; the only information known is noted on the image itself: Pacific Electric no. 1205 on a Railroad Boosters outing near Yorba Linda [...]