Pacific Electric

  Pacific Electric car no. 5120 heads westbound on the Santa Monica Air Line at Jefferson and Main Street in this image captured September 24, 1953.   Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

  This image captures a Pacific Electric car (in Pasadena Short Line service) heading southbound on Fair Oaks Blvd. in South Pasadena as it approaches the wye at Huntington Drive and Oneonta [...]

  Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) car no. 1812 pauses at Watts Tower (note the open doors) as part of charter service in March 1960.   L. Swanson Photo, Andy [...]

  Metropolitan Coach Lines (ex-Pacific Electric) car no. 5166 leads two other units in this undated image captured during an Electric Railway Association (ERA) charter.   L. Swanson [...]

  Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) car no. 1815 (note the black number lettering) pauses for passengers next to blimp no. 498 at the Catalina Terminal in August 1958. [...]

  Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) streetcar no. 1815 rolls through a Southern District oil patch as part of a railfan special. Note the railfan applied [...]

  Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) streetcar no. 1812 stops for a photograph opportunity as part of a railfan special some time in the 1956-1959 timeframe. [...]

  Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) streetcar no. 1812 cruises through an unnamed residential location likely in the Southern District as part of a railfan [...]

Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) streetcar no. 1807 waits for railfans to board at a 6th and Main Street Station platform for a special charter to Long Beach some [...]

  Famed Disney animator Ward Kimball walks the rails before the old Pacific Electric Palms station as part of the “Save Our Station” (SOS) initiative that ultimately resulted in [...]