4514 at Torrance
By Ralph Cantos PE no. 4514 poses for the camera, fresh from the Torrance paint shop, on October 1, 1946. This is a very rare shot, as the 4514 would never see service with this number. Just two [...]
H Line Rails on Heliotrope Boulevard (1996)
By Ralph Cantos After the very unpopular 1947 Los Angeles Transit Lines abandonment of the H line, the City Of Los Angeles paved over unneeded rails of the well constructed line including [...]
543 at Country Club Drive and Olympic Boulevard
By Ralph Cantos Los Angeles Railway car no. 543 swings off of Country Club Drive onto Olympic Blvd. heading for its terminal at Mullen Street – directly across from Los Angeles High School [...]
Trolley Wire Protectors
By Ralph Cantos In this photo, you can see the trolley wire protector that spans the overhead. These protectors were everywhere there was streetcar or trolley coach overhead. Believe it or not, [...]
1267 and 9007 at Union Station Loop
Electrified transportation dominates this scene taken in 1951, across the street from the Los Angeles Transit Line’s Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal loop. H-4 class car no. 1267 [...]
1299 at the End of the Wire
It’s July 4, 1954, and Pacific Electric Business Car no. 1299 pauses briefly at North Long Beach on the former Newport Beach Line. The overhead trolley wire ends here, about 200 feet south [...]
525 A True Survivor
By Ralph Cantos From rail fan friend Bill Volkmer, comes this nice photo of OERM’s narrow gauge darling car, no. 525, taking a breather at the Bonnie Brae & Beverly Boulevard terminal [...]
End of the Line for 5144
By Ralph Cantos National Metals & Steel was never a pleasant place to visit for rail fans. Starting about 1955, steam locomotives, mostly Southern Pacific, starting arriving at on Terminal [...]
Going Down with Trolley Poles Held High
By Ralph Cantos Like the mighty ocean liner “Titanic,” the once great Pacific Electric Railway struck and iceberg in the form of the Highway Department, a City that didn’t give [...]
A Bleak Future Awaits
By Ralph Cantos Like some animal or human being caught up in a slave labor situation, PE no. 5144 (now operated by “slave masters” Metropolitan Coach Lines) is beginning to show the [...]
