Los Angeles Railway

It’s January 15, 1939, and the Railroad Boosters’ fan trip on Los Angeles Railway cars nos. 1421 and 1432 is paused at what is notated as “Santa Ana and Seville.” This [...]

Los Angeles Railway MU cars nos. 1432 (front) and 1421 (rear) pause at an unidentified loop during the same Railroad Boosters fan trip discussed here in January 1939. If you can identify this [...]

A hand-tinted, illustrated-from-photographs postcard dating to 1940 depicting a new Los Angeles Railway PCC car in front of Los Angeles City Hall. As Ralph Cantos puts it, “the city was [...]

This photo was taken by Ernie Leo at 116th St and Vermont at the south end of the F line. It was a RAILROAD BOOSTERS fan trip to mark the last MU train on the Los Angeles Railway in January of [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) car no. 1224 stops for traffic on 7th Street in 1948. Ralph Cantos Collection

Los Angeles Railway J Line car no. 3029 turns off 7th Street and onto Grand in this image taken December 5, 1941, just before Pearl Harbor. Ralph Cantos Collection

From David Thompson comes this tip on LARy cars seen in a vintage movie on YouTube: The 1932 Barbara Stanwyck movie “Shopworn” has a couple brief scenes of LA Railway cars. At about [...]

The Railroad Boosters are captured by photographer Roy Finley in this June 30, 1946, image aboard Los Angeles Railway’s final A car southbound at 7th and Hill – at 4AM. In the image, [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) U Line car no. 304 is captured at 5th and Wall Streets on May 15, 1947, as an LATL crew installs new overhead for the trackless bus systems that [...]

Los Angeles Railway car and tracks pass the Golden State Hotel and the Tacoma Bar on November 1, 1911, which is believed to be looking north at the corner of 5th and Central Streets in this real [...]