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A Little Slice of Life
By Steve Crise The United States of America was engaged in its second year of WW II when Harley L. Kelso made this timely shot of Los Angeles Railway car 934 and Pacific Electric interurban car [...]
4507 in Santa Ana
Pacific Electric Express no. 4507 is photographed at rest in Santa Ana wearing a “Bellflower Santa Ana” dash sign. The image is undated. Gordon Glattenberg Collection
1706 at 6th and Main
Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) no. 1706 on “Long Beach Limited” service is photographed at rest at the 6th and Main Street station’s passenger platform. [...]
1706 in Long Beach
Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) blimp no. 1706 is photographed in Long Beach on the final day of 1960, December 31. Gordon Glattenberg Collection
1545 at 6th and Main
Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) blimp no. 1545 is captured in this dramatic nighttime shot (with star filters) at 6th and Main Street Station in downtown Los Angeles. Service [...]
1544 at the Torrance Shops
Pacific Electric steeplecab switcher no. 1544 is photographed coupled to a Southern Pacific outside-braced boxcar and an ominous stack of recovered rail – an indication of line abandonments [...]
