Pacific Electric

Pacific Electric car no. 5154 is captured at Sherman Way on the Van Nuys Line. The date is September 27, 1952. Learn more about this photo and its photographer Alan Weeks by clicking here. Alan [...]

The new exhibit at the Pasadena Museum of History entitled “Pacific Electric Then and Now” by PERYHS team members Michael Patris and Steve Crise recently received notice at [...]

Heading outbound past the Lamanda Park Tower, a hazy day hides the nearby mountains as the PE heads up north Sierra Madre Boulevard past the Santa Fe tracks parallel to Walnut Street on its way [...]

Pacific Electric no. 1121 heads out of Lamanda Park (East Pasadena) toward Sierra Madre from Lamanda Park Junction in March of 1935. Note the penny scale and the PE employee’s phone booth. [...]

Two unidentified young men shake hands before Pacific Electric interurban no. 1051 wearing Torrance destination signs. Mount Lowe Preservation Society Collection

Dominguez Tower as attributed to famed Pacific Electric photographer Charles Lawrence. Mount Lowe Preservation Society Collection

Number 93, wearing “Pasadena” destination boards, rolls down an unidentified Pasadena city street in this undated photo. Mount Lowe Preservation Society Collection

Number 45 on the Colorado, Los Robles, Hill & Lake Avenue Line poses with its motorman and conductor in this undated image. Mount Lowe Preservation Society Collection

The 1893 Golden Spike tie pin given to Thaddeus Lowe by his workers upon the opening of the Mount Lowe Incline Railway, July 4, 1893. This was one of Lowe’s prized possessions and comes via [...]

A group of Mount Lowe artifacts acquired over the year by Vic McVey, including a piece of a railroad tie from either the Alpine Division or One Man and a Mule Railway, a reproduction of the Mount [...]