Pacific Electric

Pacific Electric interurban no. 444 was acquired with the purchase of the Los Angeles & Redondo Railway. It was originally built in 1906 and is shown here at the 7th & Alameda Shops. [...]

Pacific Electric wooden steeple cab no. 1551 was built by the Los Angeles & Redondo Shops in 1908 and acquired by Huntington in the merger. She was used as a switcher at the 7th and Alameda [...]

Pacific Electric center-entrance car no. 308 after a wreck, just prior to rebuilding at the 7th and Alameda shops. Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric shop switcher no. 1503 was built by the Torrance Shops in 1920 to shift cars to the transfer table and to spot equipment. It was powered by an Alco gasoline engine. Harold [...]

An aerial view of Pacific Electric’s massive Torrance Shops, completed in 1920. Donald Duke Collection

Shop switcher no. 1510 was built in 1901 by the Pacific Electric for use at 7th and Alameda Shops. It is shown here, still in service, as the Torrance Shops yard switcher in 1939. Harold Stewart [...]

Fresh from the Pullman Company is Pacific Electric no. 1240, part of PE’s 1921 equipment upgrade for the Long Beach Line. 1240 is captured here at the Torrance Shops. Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric’s General Electric gas-electrics nos. 1502 and 1502 sit idle in 1939 at Torrance Shops. Donald Duke Collection

Panoramic image of the Calship Terminal at Terminal Island. This facility had three tracks to hold multiple Pacific Electric trains ferrying workers from downtown Los Angeles to the Terminal [...]

This World War II-era shot captures Pacific Electric 0-6-0 steam switcher no. 1506 with a whale-back tender (instead of its normal slope-back version). Note the lamp hood over the tender’s [...]