Pacific Electric

Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) car no. 1800 waits at a platform at the 6th and Main Street Station for passengers before departing for Watts on the Southern Division in this [...]

  Metropolitan Coach Lines (ex-Pacific Railway) blimps line up for a photo session south of Compton in the Southern District as part of an Electric Railway Association (ERA) – National [...]

  Metropolitan Coach Lines (ex-Pacific Electric) nos. 5116 and 5167 speed southbound on the Southern Division near Watts in this image dated May 10, 1956.   L. Swanson Photo, Andy [...]

  Southbound Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) car no. 1812 pauses at Four Tracks in this image dated January 1959.   L. Swanson Photo, Andy Goddard Collection

  Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) blimp no. 1543 pauses at Slauson Junction as part of southbound Long Beach Line service in this undated photo. Los Angeles City Hall is [...]

  Lit flares illuminate the foggy evening of December 8, 1958 at San Pedro Station. This was the last night of service to this location by the Metropolitan Transit Authority, successor to [...]

  Metropolitan Transit Authority blimp no. 1528 pauses at San Pedro Station, as the last unit to provide service there. The date is December 8, 1958.   Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

  Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) units no. 1527 and 9223 rest at the San Pedro Station. The image is dated November 28, 1958.   Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

  Pacific Electric blimp no. 315 rolls southbound out of the bascule bridge at San Pedro in this image dated July 14, 1953.   Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection  

  Pacific Electric blimp no. 437 heads northbound on the San Pedro Line at West Basin in this image dated September 17, 1955.   Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection