By Ralph Cantos Box motor #1458 (Pullman Car Company 1913) rolls along the Northern Districts 4 tracks in this 1948 view. The 1458 was built new as a passenger car for Southern Pacific’s [...]
By Ralph Cantos By the mid 1930s, the Pacific Electric was operating a fleet of more than 500 rail cars. The newest of them, the 100s, had just arrived from St. Louis Car Company in 1930; all 160 [...]
By Ralph Cantos Last runs of any streetcar or interurban line is usually a sad, but uneventful occasion. However, that was not the case on Tuesday afternoon, September 29, 1953, when Pacific [...]
In this 1906 postcard from the Pacific Railroad Society Collection, we are looking east on Oregon Avenue, which was the original name of Santa Monica Boulevard in this part of Los Angeles, [...]
From an Acme News Pictures photo from October 24, 1939: Los Angeles, Calif. — Frank Carter, 35, of Torrance, Calif, died as a Pacific Electric train plowed into this new (Packard) sedan and [...]
By Ralph Cantos In a more recent photo taken of “retired” line car #3758, the former Pacific Electric no. 758 is a true survivor. Long live these remarkable cars. Ralph Cantos Collection
By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric no. 758 – looking rather tired and beat to HELL. The former PE Hollywood car #758 (St. Louis Car Co. 1928) sits forlorn and most likely, out of service, in [...]
By Ralph Cantos When the City of Los Angeles and the Highway Department ganged up on the Pacific Electric and condemned Aliso Street for Freeway construction, that effectively killed off [...]
By Ralph Cantos This remarkable old photo, taken around 1908-09, shows a Los Angeles Pacific trolley at the end of the single-track Laurel Canyon Line. The camera looks south as one of the two [...]
By Ralph Cantos What a difference 30 years makes. It’s now 1954 and Gardner Junction is in the last months of its life. Three Hollywood cars can be seen in this photo. For reasons lost to [...]
