Pacific Electric Video

Cable television program “Cities of the Underworld” profiles the Subway Terminal building, complete with animated re-creations of the underground rail activity and an exploration of [...]

See the Subway Terminal Building and former Pacific Electric units departing in this clip from Fritz Lang’s classic all-star noir “While the City Sleeps” from 1956.

“This Was Pacific Electric” is a full-length documentary produced by Sky City Productions and narrated by Stephanie Edwards of KTLA fame. This is a 5-minute preview of the complete program.

“Ride the Last of the Big Red Cars” by Interurban Films, a full-color documentary of the Southern District’s Long Beach Line during the final week of operations in April of 1961.

Check out Walt Disney’s classic “Susie the Blue Coupe” from 1951, featuring Red Cars!

  Here is an Expo Line flyover assembled using the tools built into Google Earth. The line, which retraces many segments of the Pacific Electric, goes from 7th Street in downtown Los [...]

The Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society presents the “Pacific Electric Trolley Waltz” from 1906 accompanied by a visual selection from our online image archive. This [...]

Promotional footage of Pacific Electric’s Mount Lowe Line on the Northern Division, probably from the 1910s.

Surviving remnants from a 1914 Pacific Electric training film shot on the Western District.