Ralph Cantos Collection

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By Ralph Cantos This colorized postcard from 1930 looks north on Broadway at about 9th Street. When these colorized post cards were produced, some “fine” street details were lost, [...]

By Ralph Cantos This remarkable aerial photograph taken around 1938-39 shows the LARY Pico-Rimpau Loop and Pacific Electric’s Vineyard Junction yard. This photo must have been taken on a [...]

In another vintage colorized postcard of downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles Railway cars are prominently featured as they pass in front of the newly built SPRING-ARCADE Building located at 541 S. [...]

By Ralph Cantos Back in the “good old days,” postcards showing the Downtown district or Main Street in any  American city, big or small, would more often than not show  streetcars or [...]

By Ralph Cantos The former Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 711, now renumbered to 5161 and looking “as good as new,” rolls along Hollywood Boulevard at La Brea Avenue in this [...]

By Ralph Cantos Freshly outshopped Pacific Electric no. 711 is seen here at West Hollywood yard in 1941 awaiting an appointment with a metal surgeon at the Torrance Shops hospital for some [...]