Pacific Electric

The City of Rancho Cucamonga, California, celebrated the re-opening of the Pacific Electric Trail (built upon the former PE right-of-way throughout the city) on December 7, 2011, at the trailhead [...]

Pacific Electric car no. 5131 is captured on Hollywood Boulevard from a passing Hollywood car at Christmas 1952. Roger Bogenberger Photo Ralph Cantos Collection

Pacific Electric car no. 5112 photographed at Hawthorn Avenue and Fuller Street in December 1952. Roger Bogenberger Photo Ralph Cantos Collection

Pacific Electric streetcar no. 5133 rolls down Hawthorn Avenue (at Fuller) in this January 1953 image. Ralph Cantos Collection

Pacific Electric streetcar no. 5140 is photographed inbound at Vista Street in January 1953. Ralph Cantos Collection

A two-car Pacific Electric train crosses Fletcher Drive on the steel viaduct in this May 1955 shot. Note the Wonder Bread billboard: “Helps Build Strong Bodies 6 Ways.” Ralph Cantos [...]

Two Pacific Electric PCC cars speed over the steel viaduct crossing Fletcher Drive in this May 1955 Western District shot. Ralph Cantos Collection

An interesting perspective looking down on Pacific Electric’s Toluca Yard, captured in the summer of 1949. Ralph Cantos Collection

Pacific Electric car no. 5151 pauses before Graumann’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard on Christmas Day, 1953. Behind it is a Fairfax line bus. Ralph Cantos Collection

See the Subway Terminal Building and former Pacific Electric units departing in this clip from Fritz Lang’s classic all-star noir “While the City Sleeps” from 1956.