Ralph Cantos Collection

By Ralph Cantos On the subject of the very rare 9 line dash sign, here is Los Angeles Railway no. 881 sporting the very same colorful dash sign. The 881 awaits departure time in front of the old [...]

By Ralph Cantos About 1962-63, as Pacific Electric no. 1001 and Los Angeles Railway cars 1160, 2601, and 1201 and other LARY equipment were being relocated from Travel Town, the 538 arrived about [...]

By Ralph Cantos Twenty years after all other 500s vanished as intact cars, Pacific Electric no. 538 awaits its next call to perform in front of movie cameras. Here she sits on a shorty section of [...]

see below for update! By Ralph Cantos For the most part, both the Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railway were very safe rail systems. The PE operated at much higher speeds than the LARY, and as [...]

By Ralph Cantos This breathtaking photograph, taken by master photographer Alan K. Weeks, shows the Pacific Electric Glendale-Burbank Line at is best. At the time Alan took this photo, the end [...]

By Ralph Cantos When the first Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (Many Trolley Abandonments) assumed control of transit operations in the City Of Los Angeles, job number one was to begin [...]

By Ralph Cantos This remarkable photograph taken from high atop the Pacific Electric building looks down on Main Street at 6th. A mix of southbound Los Angeles Railway (LARy) and PE cars stretch [...]

By Ralph Cantos This beautiful photo taken by Ralph Melching from the Beverly Boulevard viaduct looks down on Pacific Electric’s Toluca Yard in the summer of 1941. The freshly modernized [...]

By Ralph Cantos This beautiful photo taken from atop the LARY-LATL building shows so well the dominance of streetcar transport that was once so prominent in Los Angeles. Here, looking north on [...]

By Ralph Cantos This beautiful photo taken around 1942 shows LARY 1387 hitting the diamond at 7th & Broadway. Like Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 717, the 1387 always seemed to be in [...]