Northern District

It’s the last days of the Northern District when this image of Pacific Electric no. 5083 is captured at Valley Junction. Ralph Cantos Collection

Pacific Electric box motor no. 1465 and its crew member pause for this photograph taken April 6, 1945, near Sierra Vista Station in Alhambra. Charles D. Savage Photo Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric car no. 1134 is photographed near El Sererno on March 4, 1938. Charles D. Savage Photo Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric interurbans (lead by no. 1116) are photographed near the Van Horn Stop at Sierra Vista (Alhambra) in April of 1945. Charles D. Savage Photo Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric interurbans (lead by no. 1008) roll toward Los Angeles through El Sereno in June of 1945. The image was used in Donald Duke’s 1958 book “PE” (page 20): Signal [...]

Pacific Electric no. 1255 pauses for this photograph at Valley Junction in Los Angeles in September of 1937. Photographer Charles D. Savage’s notes on the slide original read: From the [...]

Pacific Electric no.1144 is captured at the Sierra Vista station in Alhambra on April 6, 1945. Charles D Savage Photo Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric right-of-way is in shambles after a major washout along Huntington Drive. The image is possibly from 1938. L. A. Toothaker Collection Thomas Pollock Collection

Pacific Electric right-of-way is in shambles after a major washout along Huntington Drive. The image is possibly from 1938. L. A. Toothaker Collection Thomas Pollock Collection

Pacific Electric freight locomotive no. 1619 is captured in this circa-1930 image featuring its assigned crew, somewhere on the Northern District. In this series of images, 1619 and crew are [...]