Pacific Electric

By Ralph Cantos Gardner Junction was so named because of its location at Gardner Street and Sunset Boulevard. At this point, the LAUREL CANYON line diverged from the Hollywood/Beverly Hills main [...]

When I was fifteen I hiked up this abandoned railway with two friends. Took my trusty old Box Camera. Then again my father and I hiked it in 1949. The pictures are not that great but the historic [...]

Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 754 rushes over the Santa Anita Wash viaduct at Duarte in this image dated September 10, 1951. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 5064 bound for Arcadia, Monrovia, and Glendora awaits departure from the 6th and Main Street station, its motorman at the ready in this undated photo. Alan [...]

A Pacific Electric Hollywood car streaks westbound on Chandler Boulevard in this undated image. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

By Ralph Cantos The events of December 7, 1941 united this country like nothing ever — or since. Patriotism united Americans during World War II to levels that would never be seen again. Feature [...]

By Ralph Cantos Image courtesy Guy Span Hollywood car 736 burst into the morning sun as it approaches 1st & Hill Streets. The third rail was for the LARY / LATL A line that was abandoned on [...]

By Ralph Cantos When the Pacific Electric Railway took delivery of their 30 new Pullman Standard MU PCCs in November of 1940, the Railway was the talk of the transit industry. The whole idea [...]

By Ralph Cantos As the morning sun came up over Southern California on New Years Day, January 2, 1950, the Pacific Electric did what it had done for several decades — that was, to move thousands [...]

Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 735 rolls through (what else?) West Hollywood near Robertson Boulevard in this circa-1950 image. 735 is headed west and approaching Robertson, with [...]