Southern District

Pacific Electric interurban no. 1232 rests at the passenger platform at the 6th and Main Street Station in downtown Los Angeles as part of Southern Division service. Note the “Limited / No [...]

Pacific Electric interurbans (led by no. 1219) pull away from the passenger stop at Vernon Avenue as part of San Pedro Line service on the Southern Division. Alan Weeks Collection

Pacific Electric interurban no. 1010 pauses to allow passengers to board in Watts in this January 14, 1940 image from the Southern District. Alan Weeks Collection

Pacific Electric interurbans (led by no. 1006) stop for passengers in Watts as part of Santa Anita Race Track service. The image dates to July 24, 1949. Alan Weeks Collection

Pacific Electric interurban no. 545 and its motorman and conductor pose for this early image. Jack Finn Collection

Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric, lettered for predecessor Metropolitan Coach Lines) interurban “blimp” no. 411 moves through San Pedro in this image from March 23, [...]

Abandoned former Pacific Electric streetcars get piled high at the Terminal Island scrapyard in the 1950s. Jack Finn Collection

Decommissioned former Pacific Electric streetcars are stacked prior to scrapping on Terminal Island. The date is February 23, 1956. Alan Weeks Photo Alan Weeks Collection

Pacific Electric interurban “blimp” no. 420 approaches Main Street Station in downtown Los Angeles on July 3, 1952. Alan Weeks Photo Alan Weeks Collection

Pacific Electric “blimp” interurban no. 4509 is captured in Torrance. This ex-Northwestern Pacific no. 384 unit was shipped south by Southern Pacific in 1942 and reworked to become PE [...]