Traction and the Enemy
By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric car no. 5144 sparkles in the mid-day sun on this very sad day, May 31, 1953. This is the last day of rail service along Santa Monica Blvd. east of Fairfax Ave. As [...]
Deluxe Cars of the LARy
By Ralph Cantos By 1929, the Los Angeles Railway was desperate for a fare increase. The PUC granted a 2-cent fare increase on the provision that the LARy improve the “Spartan [...]
Big Bertha to the Rescue
From traction fan Bill Volkmer comes this interesting photo taken some time between the May 1955 rail abandonments and the end of the W line rail service in late 1956. There is not much [...]
LATL PCCs: Then and Now by Gary Starre
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION ! Traction Fan Garry Starre did this very photo interesting comparison of what happens to PCCs after they left Los Angeles. Cars #3001, #3072, #3100, & #3165 [...]
Los Angeles Transit Lines PCCs in Cairo, Egypt, 1972
In this 1972 view, one of LA’s once beautiful PCCs shows the terrible effects of three years of battle on the mean streets of Cairo. As the years passed, more and more of the cars would [...]
3148 on Standard Gauge Trucks on the Long Beach Line
Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority PCC no. 3148 rests on standard gauge trucks at Fairbanks Yard in Long Beach, part of a demonstration tour showing PCCs on the still-popular Long Beach [...]
A Picked-Over Pack of PCCs
In this beautiful view taken from a private airplane, the camera looks down on Vernon Yard in the summer of 1964. Twenty-five air-electric PCCs have been removed from Vernon Yard for shipment to [...]
5010 on Brand Boulevard in 1948
Pacific Electric no. 5010 poses with its front doors wide open, beckoning passengers to board America’s most beautiful PCC. From Ralph Cantos: In this 1948 photo, PE’s fleet of 30 [...]
3077 On Its Way to Chile
Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority PCC 3077 (numbers and MTA emblem painted over) is loaded aboard a freighter that will take it to the far-off country of Chile in January of 1964. Once [...]
Submerged LATL Cars off Redondo Beach in 1958
A 1958 photo of fish swimming through submerged Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) car bodies off Redondo Beach. From Ralph Cantos: In 1958, two years after LARY home-built K-4 [...]
