By Ralph Cantos June 19, 1955, will live in infamy among Los Angeles rail fans and commuters. On that day, the most dastardly deed ever perpetrated on Los Angeles commuters was enacted by [...]
By Paul Ayers My father, Ray Ayers, and my uncle, Loren Ayers, were serious railfans; Loren was the photographer of the two. They somehow learned of a railfan special scheduled for the last day [...]
By Ralph Cantos Heavy rains in 1938 caused havoc all over Los Angeles and Southern California. Here, Pacific Electric Birney no. 335 sits in traction motor-high rain water on Franklin Avenue in [...]
By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric’s double end PCCs were arguably the most beautiful PCCs ever built. Unfortunately for PE’s Pullman built PCCs, beauty did not translate into [...]
From our friends at The Paragon Agency (publishers of the My American History series) comes this hand-colorized version of the classic image of 1044 bound for Balboa. This image appears in Corona [...]
By Ralph Cantos The shortest distance between two points is often described “as the crow flies.” So it was in 1897. That’s when the Pasadena & Pacific Railway wanted to [...]
By Ralph Cantos In a a scene all to typical in post-World War II Los Angeles, Hollywood car no. 5120’s “right of passage” is challenged by a 1947 Cadillac Fleetwood sedan. The [...]
By Ralph Cantos In this image, Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 5064 departs the 6th & Main Street elevated station for Glendora. Time was running out for the Northern District by this [...]
By Alan Weeks Well we come to the end of our Nostalgia trip. Pictures 144-4 and 144-5 there are no before and after photos. They are the Northern end of the old 4 track PERY Soto St. Viaduct over [...]
