Pacific Electric

A Tim Muir rendering of Pacific Electric Supply Car no. 007. Tim Muir Collection

From digital artist Tim Muir: Here are some of the 950 class cars and a lonely 600-700 class Hollywood at Ocean Park. I’ve been building these for my own use on “routes” [...]

Broderick Crawford stars in this 1954 noir “Down Three Dark Streets,” which includes action at Subway Terminal Building and Pacific Electric PCCs, including no. 5001. From transit [...]

From our good friend Ralph Cantos comes this great clip, from the 1950 Rudolph Maté noir “Union Station” starring William Holden. Take it away, Ralph: It was shot on the PEs 6th and [...]

Silent cinema legend Harold Lloyd commandeers a 200-class Pacific Electric streetcar (possibly 211?) and takes it through a variety of locations on the Western-Franklin Line in Hollywood in this [...]

Mostly 1940s footage of the Hollywood Cars of Pacific Electric’s Western Division, collected in an overview format from a variety of sources.

Here’s a terrific promotional newsreel by L. M. DeBell produced in 1927. It includes sequences of Pacific Electric cars on Hollywood Boulevard. Suggested by Ralph Cantos.

Are Streetcars Coming Back to Los Angeles?: MyFoxLA.com PE and LARy/LATL historian and friend of the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Ralph Cantos recently appeared on Fox 11 News in a [...]

Pacific Electric tank car no. 7315 is photographed at an unknown location in this undated photo. Note the placard: “This car for use of diesel oil for PE Railroad only.” Jack Finn [...]

A Pacific Electric ink blotter believed to be from 1932, advertising “Special Party Service” listing C. H. Jones, General Agent, the San Bernardino Passenger Department. The blotter [...]