Western District

By Ralph Cantos As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. While the exact details of these photos are lost to history, just looking at these photos taken on a damp March [...]

Pacific Electric 748 painted as a “Valley Seven” at North Sherman Way, San Fernando, in an image dated December 1, 1940. © 1940 by Phillips C. Kauke, Stan Kistler Collection

By Ralph Cantos The former Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 711, now renumbered to 5161 and looking “as good as new,” rolls along Hollywood Boulevard at La Brea Avenue in this [...]

By Ralph Cantos Freshly outshopped Pacific Electric no. 711 is seen here at West Hollywood yard in 1941 awaiting an appointment with a metal surgeon at the Torrance Shops hospital for some [...]

By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 711 is seen here, inbound to the Subway Terminal at Ivar Street. As built, the Hollywood cars were fast accelerating, but had a top speed of [...]

Here is a photo I took of the Pacific Electric freight lines in the 1970s. This image shows an 86′ boxcar loaded with toys from Testor Corporation, West Los Angeles sitting in PE’s [...]

Here is a photo I took of the Pacific Electric freight lines in the 1970s. This is a 400,000 pound Southern California Edison transformer. They had shipped it from Paramount to the Sentous team [...]

Here is a photo I took of the Pacific Electric freight lines in the 1970s. This is a machine being loaded by McDonnell Douglas at the Santa Monica team track. The machine weighed over 500,000 [...]