Ralph Cantos Collection

By Ralph Cantos One picture is worth a thousand words. The extremely high track and overhead standards to which the City of Los Angeles imposed on the PE and LARY around 1918 is clearly in [...]

By Ralph Cantos Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 1423 pulls into the Union Station loop in this early 1948 view. The newly refurbished 1423 looks great for a 25 year old gal.  But soon things will [...]

By Ralph Cantos This  1938 photo from an General Electric advertisement shows Los Angeles Railway car no. 3060 on W. 3rd Street at Windsor Blvd. in LA’s “well-to-do” Hancock [...]

By Ralph Cantos As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. While the exact details of these photos are lost to history, just looking at these photos taken on a damp March [...]

By Ralph Cantos This beautiful photograph taken around 1931 shows one of LARY’s refurbished H-3 class cars rolling along Spring Street near 6th. The car is working the M line. In June of [...]

By Ralph Cantos Here is another colorized postcard of Downtown Los Angeles, a two-car train of what appears to be single pole 800s making its way eastbound on 6th Street at Spring. The postcard [...]

By Ralph Cantos This spectacular photograph of the Pacific Electric’s San Pedro Station shows a 3-car train of 10 Hundreds waiting departure time to Los Angeles, as a former Portland [...]

By Ralph Cantos This colorized postcard from 1930 looks north on Broadway at about 9th Street. When these colorized post cards were produced, some “fine” street details were lost, [...]

By Ralph Cantos This remarkable aerial photograph taken around 1938-39 shows the LARY Pico-Rimpau Loop and Pacific Electric’s Vineyard Junction yard. This photo must have been taken on a [...]