Los Angeles Railway

Los Angeles Railway no. 355 on F Line duty rolls past the Rosslyn Hotel (located at 5th and Main Streets) in this undated image probably fromr the late 1940s. Gordon Glattenberg Collection

By Ralph Cantos This remarkable photo was taken at dusk on February 25, 1942. It was one of the first air raid tests in the Los Angeles area. Just two days before, the Richfield Ellwood oil [...]

By Ralph Cantos This amusing photo, taken about 1935 at 3rd Street and New Hampshire, shows an eastbound Los Angeles Railway S Line car stopped by an “obstruction” on the tracks [...]

By Ralph Cantos This remarkable photo taken at Larchmont and Melrose shows Los Angeles Railway car no. 634 being used as a mobile recruiting station on rails. As the saying goes, “desperate [...]

By Ralph Cantos While color photographs of LA’s PCCs during their service on the LATL and LAMTA are plentiful, color photos of them in service under the LARY banner are rare. This beautiful [...]

By Steve Crise As the end of the line grew closer for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority’s streetcars, many fans rushed to the streets to photograph the last days of electric transit [...]