Los Angeles Railway

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 [...]

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 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, [...]

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 Los Angeles Railway PCC no. 3025 is “locked and loaded” aboard a flatcar at the St. Louis Car Company factory. The photo dates to late 1937. The 3025 is part of the [...]

Historic Caption: Los Angeles. Day broke in Los Angeles today with the usual crowded bus stop, people waiting for streetcars and buses that were tied up in the barns and garages by the mid-night [...]

Historic Caption: Collide at Intersection – Thirty persons were injured in Los Angeles when two trolley cars crashed at a street intersection. The car at the left failed to make a boulevard [...]

Los Angeles Railway no. 67 photographed at Central and Slauson, Los Angeles, May 20, 1947. Bottom of negative has written in green ink “KILLE-WCW” – does anyone know what this [...]

By Ralph Cantos The Los Angeles Railway’s fleet of MAGGIEs worked the hilly I line for several decades. Unlike the majority of LARY’s car fleet that used air brakes, the MAGIEs used [...]