Pacific Electric

From the original AP Caption: HCP090202 – 9/2/55 – San Dimas, Cal.: A fireman attempts to save the Pacific Electric rail station here (9/1) as flames from a 115 acre brush fire spread [...]

By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric’s Torrance Shop complex could rebuild just about any rail car or bus on the PE roster. Master craftsmen capable of working with wood and steel bodied rail [...]

By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric’s Hollywood cars were true survivors with some of them in service 40 years stateside to 65 years in Buenos Aires. The cars were built in four orders over a [...]

Eaton Wash Bridge After Abandonment on the Sierra Madre Line, as captured by Alan Weeks on January 30, 1951. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

The Mount Wilson Trail terminus is photographed by Alan Weeks after abandonment. A sad sight, to be sure, particularly when compared with this Alan Weeks image. The date is January 28, 1951. Alan [...]

The Pacific Electric Lamanda Park Tower is photographed by Alan Weeks months before the inevitable abandonment of the Sierra Madre Line. The date is September 10, 1950. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan [...]

Alan Weeks captures this somber image of abandonment on the Sierra Madre Line at the Lamanda Park Interlock on February 8, 1951. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

A Pacific Electric track gang works rail removal at California Boulevard in San Marino on the Sierra Madre Line on January 30, 1951. Everyone wears hats. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

Pacific Electric box motor no. 1451 and a hand-lettered flatcar bearing the marks “PE 0635” work rail removal on the Sierra Madre Line at California Boulevard in this image dated [...]