Los Angeles Railway

By Steve Crise Los Angeles Transit Lines PCC car number 3127, a Type P-3, is seen loaded on a flat car at an unknown location along its journey from St. Louis to Los Angeles, California. This car [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines track gangs are busy with this repair project at the intersection of Vermont Avenue and 8th Street. Motor flat car no. 9209 is part of the action as it turns right off [...]

By Ralph Cantos Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 1423 pulls into the Union Station loop in this early 1948 view. The newly refurbished 1423 looks great for a 25 year old gal.  But soon things will [...]

By Ralph Cantos This  1938 photo from an General Electric advertisement shows Los Angeles Railway car no. 3060 on W. 3rd Street at Windsor Blvd. in LA’s “well-to-do” Hancock [...]

By Ralph Cantos This beautiful photograph taken around 1931 shows one of LARY’s refurbished H-3 class cars rolling along Spring Street near 6th. The car is working the M line. In June of [...]

By Ralph Cantos This colorized postcard from 1930 looks north on Broadway at about 9th Street. When these colorized post cards were produced, some “fine” street details were lost, [...]

In another vintage colorized postcard of downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles Railway cars are prominently featured as they pass in front of the newly built SPRING-ARCADE Building located at 541 S. [...]

By Ralph Cantos Back in the “good old days,” postcards showing the Downtown district or Main Street in any  American city, big or small, would more often than not show  streetcars or [...]

By Ralph Cantos Los Angeles Railway PCC no. 3025 is “locked and loaded” aboard a flatcar at the St. Louis Car Company factory. The photo dates to late 1937. The 3025 is part of the [...]