Ralph Cantos Collection

By Ralph Cantos This remarkable photo was taken at dusk on February 25, 1942. It was one of the first air raid tests in the Los Angeles area. Just two days before, the Richfield Ellwood oil [...]

By Ralph Cantos This pathetic photo at Toluca Yard was taken in November 1955. Pacific Electric no. 5154, still in mint condition inside and out, is made ready for its trip to Terminal Island and [...]

By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 5167 is seen here at Gardner Junction in the last days of the Hollywood Boulevard – Beverly Hills Line. After 29 years of service, the old [...]

By Ralph Cantos This amusing photo, taken about 1935 at 3rd Street and New Hampshire, shows an eastbound Los Angeles Railway S Line car stopped by an “obstruction” on the tracks [...]

By Ralph Cantos This remarkable photo taken at Larchmont and Melrose shows Los Angeles Railway car no. 634 being used as a mobile recruiting station on rails. As the saying goes, “desperate [...]