LATL – LAMTA – SCRTD 3165: What might have been
By Ralph Cantos Had the LAMTA not abandoned LA’s excellent PCC system in on March 31,1963, the 164 well-maintained cars might have gone on to render smooth, quiet, pollution free rail [...]
Riding the Heavy Iron on San Pedro Street
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 [...]
LATL 1423: A Long Life Ahead
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 [...]
LARY 3060 in Affluent Hancock Park
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 [...]
Power Problems on Glendale Boulevard: Buses to the Rescue
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 [...]
LARY Green Car on Spring Street Near 6th
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 [...]
PE 800s on 6th Street, Downtown Los Angeles, 1916
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 [...]
San Pedro Station, 1935
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 [...]
