Pacific Electric

From Ralph Cantos, a Dragon Car (no. 65) at 6th and Olive Streets in downtown Los Angeles, circa early 1930s. Says Ralph: Another great Downtown LA post card.. This is VERY RARE . That is Dragon [...]

Pacific Electric steeple cab no. 1544, better known as Electra, rests in retirement at Los Angeles’ Travel Town circa 1955. Electra is best known as having served the city of San Francisco [...]

Upon retirement, Pacific Electric no. 1498 was “presented to the children of Los Angeles by the Pacific Electric Rwy. Co.” (as the plaque reads), where it was used for a time as the [...]

Donald Duke in a self-portrait before Pacific Electric no. 1001 at Travel Town circa 1955. 1001 now resides at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris. Donald Duke Photo, Pacific Electric [...]

Pacific Electric no. 1001 and Los Angeles Railway no. 536 sit together at Travel Town in 1956. (Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 1160 sits behind 536.) The little tree between the two cars would [...]

Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority no. 1503 (former Pacific Electric no. 304) suffers an ignoble fate after losing control while descending the viaduct ramp at the 6th and Main Street [...]

Former Pacific Electric streetcar no. 100 is captured as part of Veracruz’s transit system (Mexico), now renumbered as 205, in June of 1957. A. M. Payne Photo, Ralph Cantos Collection

Ralph Cantos found this photo in an antique shop in Santa Monica; the only information known is noted on the image itself: Pacific Electric no. 1205 on a Railroad Boosters outing near Yorba Linda [...]

From the Pacific Railroad Society comes this wonderful image that we believe was taken on a Railroad Boosters trip dated May 2, 1937. It is a view of Spadra Road, now North Harbor Boulevard, [...]