Pacific Electric

A four-car special Pacific Electric train takes air cadets to the Santa Ana Army Base at Greenville, off the Santa Ana-Huntington Beach Line in the Southern Division, possibly during World War [...]

Pacific Electric interurban no. 1362 pauses for passengers at Artesia in 1929. “Enter front door” on this unit only. Modified based on comment Bill Everett Collection Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric gas-electric unit no. 1649 stands outside the Orange station; it was assigned to the non-electrified Orange to Marlboro line. Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric gas-electric unit no. 1649 stands outside the Orange station; it was assigned to the non-electrified Orange to Marlboro line. Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric interurban no. 1044 awaits a turnaround for the long run back to Los Angeles in this street-level scene in late 1939, probably in Santa Ana. Modified based on comment Harold [...]

Pacific Electric interurban no. 1038 stops for a lone passenger on the Santa Ana – Orange Line in the Southern Division in 1929. Bill Everett Collection Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric interurban no. 1261 crosses the Union Pacific’s Fullerton Branch in this excursion shot from a Railroad Boosters outing in 1937. Ralph Melching Photo Donald Duke Collection

On May 24, 1927, Henry E. Huntington (founder of the Pacific Electric) died following surgery in New York City. The follow day, his coffin was loaded aboard his private car San Marino for the [...]

Pacific Electric interurban no. 1039 rolls through farmland at Artesia on the way to Santa Ana. Harold Stewart Photo Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric interurbans nos. 1026 and 1022 roll past the waterfront on the West Basin Line, approaching San Pedro station. Donald Duke Collection