Los Angeles Railway

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

The Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society is extremely gratified by the gifting of key rail artifacts from the Gordon Bachlund Collection. These items will be part of the on-display [...]

Here’s a fascinating silent film rescued and preserved by Archive.org (a great site, go check it out!) showing Los Angeles in the late 1940s. We asked Ralph Cantos, LA traction expert, to [...]

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 [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 950 is captured outside a car barn in 1947. Robert Chamberlain Photo, Richard Wilkens Collection

Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 612 is captured in Eagle Rock on E Line service. The date is March 4, 1947. Robert Chamberlain Photo, Richard Wilkens Collection

Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 527 in N Line service at Spring and Sunset on April 4, 1947. Robert Chamberlain Photo, Richard Wilkens Collection

Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 485 is captured on B Line service in this neighborhood location. It’s November of 1948. Robert Chamberlain Photo, Richard Wilkens Collection