Pacific Electric

By Ralph Cantos In the land of American traction, just four United States cities shared the distinction of having two different transit systems using the modern PCC. Those cities were Los [...]

By Alan Weeks Just think of the amazing changes we would see if we could come back in 100 years. These changes are constantly going on around us but slow enough that we don’t notice. It is [...]

By Alan Weeks Mike Patris and Steve Crise published a book of their PERY archive photos, before and after. I was really impressed with their work. I decided to try to do the same thing they did [...]

Prepared by Eriks Garsvo 

By Ralph Cantos In all their years of service on the Pacific Electric Railway, only three of PE’s own 1200-class interurbans would retire prematurely. One San Berdoo 12, no. 1206, was [...]

By Ralph Cantos As was always the case on New Years Day on the PE, it was “all hands and cars on deck.” New Years Day 1940 was no exception. With the exception of the 100s (and, [...]

By Charles Wherry My dad worked for PE and at the time of his untimely death in 1952 was an office supervisor working in the Subway Terminal Building at 4th and Hill Streets in downtown Los [...]

By Charles Wherry These three photos also deal with the last hours of rail passenger service on Pacific Electric’s Monrovia-Glendora line. This image has previously been posted on the [...]

By Charles Wherry The two photos on this page are from my collection and depict PE publicity and news accounts of the final day of service on the Monrovia-Glendora line: September 30, 1951. [...]

Here’s a neat animation created by Eriks Garsvo showing a modern-day view of the old Los Angeles River Pacific Electric bridge pilings, with a Then-and-Now animation re-creation.