Pacific Electric

By Charles Wherry Here is another menu from Pacific Electric’s 6th & Main Street restaurant. The same photo as on the breakfast menu returns, this time in red tint. PE might have made the [...]

By Charles Wherry Here are three photos of a breakfast menu from the Pacific Electric Restaurant at 6th and Main Streets in Los Angeles. The date of 12-41 appears in very small print at the lower [...]

By Ralph Cantos This official photo from Arrow Studios beautifully illustrates the large, pleasing earth-toned, mohair-upholstered arm chairs that greeted passengers traveling on aboard the [...]

By Ralph Cantos This 8×10 photograph from the Craig Rasmussen collection shows “Butterfly 12” no. 1221 rolling along towards San Pedro Station on March 5, 1948. In as much as the [...]

From the Jack Finn collection comes this image of Pacific Electric no. 1498 in around 1954 at the Torrance Shops. It’s being loaded onto a lowboy trailer for transport to Travel Town, as [...]

Here’s a great image from the Jack Finn Collection. We have Pacific Electric no. 1201 at Macy Street Yard with a “Rams vs. Redskins” banner mounted on the car side, advertising [...]

Ed Fleming is back with an absolutely amazing video he just produced, entitled “The Last Wig-Wag Signal, Anaheim, California.” This one is a MUST-WATCH-NOW! Enjoy!

By Ralph Cantos The last day of regular service was a very sad day for me. For several months I had been getting petitions signed by rail passengers to prevent abandonment — petitions given to me [...]

From the collection of Keith Ricks comes this unbelievably rare Pacific Electric Restaurant Employee badge, numbered 57, and featuring the description “Restaurant & News Service.” [...]

By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric no. 5063 was one of the first 5050-class Hollywood cars to go into service. It’s seen here on the first day of one-man service on the Glendale-Burbank Line. [...]