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From digital artist Tim Muir: Here are some of the 950 class cars and a lonely 600-700 class Hollywood at Ocean Park. I’ve been building these for my own use on “routes” [...]

Are Streetcars Coming Back to Los Angeles?: MyFoxLA.com PE and LARy/LATL historian and friend of the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Ralph Cantos recently appeared on Fox 11 News in a [...]

Pacific Electric tank car no. 7315 is photographed at an unknown location in this undated photo. Note the placard: “This car for use of diesel oil for PE Railroad only.” Jack Finn [...]

Los Angeles Railway car no. 365 rolls along the F Line headed for downtown in this 1947 image. Robert T. McVay Photo Ralph Cantos Collection

Los Angeles Railway car no. 192 negotiates trolley-heavy traffic at Sunset and Spring on the 8 Line in this 1947 image. Robert T. McVay Photo Ralph Cantos Collection

Los Angeles Railway cars nos. 1411 and 1211 take time out at the Union Station Loop in 1947. Robert McVay Photo Ralph Cantos Collection

Los Angeles Railway car no. 517 takes spot time at the end of the E Line on Euclid AVenue and Whittier Blvd. in 1946. Robert T. McVay Photo Ralph Cantos Collection

A Pacific Electric ink blotter believed to be from 1932, advertising “Special Party Service” listing C. H. Jones, General Agent, the San Bernardino Passenger Department. The blotter [...]

The City of Long Beach commissioned local artist Patrick Vogel to create this rendition of Pacific Electric no. 1001 as a new installation at the refurbished Orizaba Park, which is bisected by [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) car no. 1432 gets a solid scrub down at the Division 5 Car House in this 1947 image. Ralph Cantos Collection