Northern District

Pacific Electric no. 461 heads north on the Oak Knoll Line with a roller sign reading MOUNT LOWE and a dash sign reading RUBIO CANYON in this January, 1935 image; during the last years of [...]

Pacific Electric streetcar no. 350 heads toward Pasadena along East Mariposa Street near North Raymond Avenue just north of Mountain View Cemetery. This is just east of North Fair Oaks and west [...]

Looking up Santa Rosa Avenue (aka Christmas Tree Lane) in Altadena, Pacific Electric no. 1123 heads into Los Angeles via the Pasadena Short Line along East Mariposa Street in 1938. This is just [...]

Former Pacific Electric and Southern Pacific Railroad employee Harold Stewart captured this image of Pacific Electric no. 113 heading into Pasadena from Sierra Madre on October 1, 1940. The [...]

Pacific Electric no. 1359 makes a late day run heading south down Fair Oaks Avenue, just south of Green Street and the Green Hotel in Pasadena. The park and hotel are still there today, but most [...]

This image comes to us through the courtesy of Tattered and Lost Vernacular Photography, who uncovered it at a sale in an old photo album. It’s an undated image taken on the waiting benches [...]

L.T. Gotchy shot this image of a 1918 GMC Model 16, ¾-ton wooden flare-board express bodied truck back on March 16, 1941 atop Echo Mountain. The vehicle is facing north along the Alpine Division [...]

The intersection of Fair Oaks and Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, looking at the southwest corner and the Pacific Electric Railway ticket office and passenger waiting room in 1903. The PE car is [...]

The Pacific Electric whizzes past Arcadia Tower in this undated image by Jack Whitmeyer. With all the construction in the area lately, the Gold Line Extension will be going by this area once [...]

Pacific Electric conductor John B. Shuster poses in front of no. 342 in Altadena just before his retirement on March 31, 1938. He served the PE for 38 years in total. Craig Rasmussen Collection