Los Angeles Railway

Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 465 on N Line service is captured in this image at Spring and Sunset in January of 1950. Robert Chamberlain Photo, Richard Wilkens Collection

Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 452 on the N Line service. Great Standard station in the background! Robert Chamberlin Photo, Richard Wilkens Collection

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 [...]

This amazing Roy Finley photo captures the railfan riders of the final Los Angeles Railway A Line car (no. 90) on June 30th, 1946, at 4AM at the intersection of 7th and Hill streets in downtown [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Steve Crise of the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society lead a group nighttime photography shoot at the Orange Empire Railway Museum on April 20, 2013. Here is his image of Los Angeles [...]

Steve Crise of the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society lead a group nighttime photography shoot at the Orange Empire Railway Museum on April 20, 2013. Here is his image of Los Angeles [...]