Los Angeles Railway

The Los Angeles Railway’s Division 4, also referred to as “Georgia Street Car House”, is quiet on this Sunday afternoon in 1934. This is the south yard, the larger of the two [...]

A 1915 postcard depicting Broadway between 5th and 6th Streets with Los Angeles Railway streetcars. From Ralph Cantos: Downtown Los Angeles has always been the subject of post cards, and nothing [...]

It’’s a beautiful day for a trolley ride in Los Angeles. The camera looks north on Broadway between 4th & 5th Streets in this 1909 view. The Los Angeles Railway cars are king of the [...]

At the very busy intersection of Main – Spring -& 9th Streets, an old Los Angeles Railway manned pole tower (right) kept streetcar switch movements running smoothly. In the shot taken [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines car no. 431 working the B line at the very busy intersection of 9th – Main & Spring Streets. The date is October 23, 1948. Andy Payne Photo, Ralph Cantos Collection

Los Angeles Transit Lines car no. 687 rolls inbound on the H line just east of Hoover Street. From Ralph Cantos: The H line was very popular, and was well patronized, but the powers in charge at [...]

From Ralph Cantos: The center of Downtown LA was 7th & Broadway. In this 1942 postcard, 2 LARY H class cars head east on 7th Street, while another car heads north on Broadway. 7th & [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) car no. 536 sits peacefully in its final resting place at Los Angeles Travel Town circa 1960. As noted in this post, 536 would suffer an ignoble [...]

As submitted by Ralph Cantos, this image taken by Alan Weeks shows Los Angeles Railway car no. 950 posing for the camera. Traction historian Duncan Still has pointed out that the 950 sits on the [...]

Here’s a terrific photo by Raymond E. Younghans, capturing L.T. Gotchy on a milk box in the middle of Temple Street, snapping Los Angeles Railway cars (S Line H-3 and W Line 1500) on [...]