Pacific Electric

Pacific Electric box motor no. 1445 poses at 8th Street Yard with motorman J. F. Biddle (in jumper), conductor C. W. Lucas (center), and conductor R. L. Bruce (right). Mount Lowe Preservation [...]

Pacific Electric gas-electric locomotive no. 1501 was one of two engines built by General Electric to be used on the docks of Long Beach and San Pedro that were not under wire. Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric steeple cab locomotive no. 1544. Donald Duke Collection

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

Local car no. 112 on the East Long Beach Line rolls past the joint Pacific Electric – Southern Pacific freight house located on the Newport Beach – Balboa Line. Ralph Melching Photo [...]

Pacific Electric Birney no. 379 on the La Rambla line in San Pedro. Ralph Melching Photo Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric Birney no. 348 rests at the end of the line at Seaside Park in Long Beach (just west of Morgan Yard). Donald Duke Collection

Pacific Electric (former Southern Pacific commuter unit) no. 4636 clears the bascule bridge and rolls into San Pedro. The bridge was always down unless a ship signaled to pass into the West [...]

Pacific Electric interurban no. 1363, bound for Los Angeles from Santa Ana in 1940, rolls along the single track right-of-way near the Hargraves stop. Since the baggage/express section was on the [...]

Pacific Electric express no. 1370 and interurban no. 1208 pose at Santa Ana Station in 1947. Charles D. Savage Photo Donald Duke Collection