By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric PCC no. 5023 shows the the terrible effects of 4 years storage in the dank confines of PE’s Subway Terminal tunnel. Some of the cars looked somewhat better, [...]
Pacific Electric PCC no. 5019 is photographed while testing on the Pasadena via Oak Knoll Line inbound at Huntington Hotel. The date is February 25, 1941. Phillips C. Kauke Photo, Phillips C. [...]
Pacific Electric no. 1218 rolls south near omnipresent oil derricks in this immediate postwar image dated August 24, 1946. Note the “Newport Beach Limited” sign. Phillips C. Kauke [...]
By Ralph Cantos These two photos, taken about ten years and ten thousand miles apart, are remarkably similar in the fact that they both show the fantastic ability of PE’s Hollywood cars to [...]
By Ralph Cantos This beautiful photo of former Pacific Electric no. 754 was taken in late 1952. The 754 was the first Hollywood car to go into service in Buenos Aires. The photo was taken just [...]
By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric Hollywood Car no. 717 heads up a 3-car train on New Years Day, 1949. The train is north bound on the Oak Knoll grade just below the Huntington Hotel and will soon [...]
By Ralph Cantos This beautiful photograph taken in November of 1927 shows a 2 car train of 950s with no. 955 on the head end. The occasion was the first test train over the newly completed [...]
By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric car no. 5111 poses for the camera of the late Jeff Moreau on this overcast day at Pico Boulevard and Main Street in Santa Monica. It’s a Sunday afternoon [...]
By Ralph Cantos This fantastic faded shot of Pacific Electric Box Motors Nos. 1457 & 1458 working MU on the Santa Monica Air Line was taken about 1948. The two units have just crossed the [...]
