Southern District

By Ralph Cantos One picture is worth a thousand words. The extremely high track and overhead standards to which the City of Los Angeles imposed on the PE and LARY around 1918 is clearly in [...]

This scene from April 9, 1961 is next to Morgan Yard in Long Beach after the special train from Los Angeles had arrived. This was not only the last passenger train to Long Beach, but the last [...]

The number of people at Main Street Station in Los Angeles continued to grow in the early morning hours of April 9, 1961. A scheduled train to Long Beach (single car barely visible on the left) [...]

On April 8, 1961, the sun was setting not only over Fairbanks Yard, but for the last time on the Long Beach line. A few rail cars still on the line were completing the remaining scheduled runs, [...]

Saturday, April 8, 1961, was the last full day of service on the Long Beach line and the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association charter running northbound had to pause for a red signal at Cota to [...]

Saturday, April 8, 1961, was the last full day of service on the Long Beach line and the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association charter was positioned in the then-unused Morgan yard in Long Beach [...]

Saturday April 8, 1961 was the last full day of service on the Long Beach line and the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association ran a charter during the day.   Car 1706 is shown southbound paused [...]

By Stephen Dudley It’s later afternoon on April 7, 1961, as one of the last Limited trains to Long Beach rolls to a stop at Los Cerritos.   This stop was well-patronized during the morning [...]

By Stephen Dudley This picture taken April 6, 1961 at the Main Street Station.  The day was the Thursday before abandonment.  In preparation for the run to Long Beach, the motorman had just [...]

Taken in November 1959, this time-lapse photo shows an evening train to Long Beach as it slows and then stops at Los Cerritos. The way the headlight lit up the track as the train approaches makes [...]