Western District

Pacific Electric’s San Fernando Station location at the intersection of Brand Boulevard and Columbus Ave. Note that the rails have been removed but the ties have not been salvaged. In the [...]

Pacific Electric Railway Company, Culver City. The date is March 26, 1964. This is the south side and west end of the Culver City depot. The baggage / freight room is in the foreground. The [...]

By Ralph Cantos This tranquil scene at Pacific Electric’s Burbank Yard belies the sad fact that the end has come, prematurely I might add, to PE’s Glendale-Burbank modern light rail [...]

Pacific Electric PCC no. 5023 heads southbound on Brand Boulevard, passing just before the McMahon’s Furniture store, which this Los Angeles Times article details as having been at 225 [...]

By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric’s 100-class cars built in 1930 were often referred to as “double-truck Birneys.” The late Ira L. Swett described them as “several cuts [...]

Pacific Electric Hollywood cars nos. 707 and 737 meet in Kester, in the San Fernando Valley, in 1945. M. D. McCarter Image / Collection

Pacific Electric nos. 5161 and 5025 meet at Ferncroft Road on the Glendale-Burbank Line on May 4, 1955. Allen W. Styffe Photo, Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Collection

By Ralph Cantos On April 14, 1912, just after the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg, Captain Smith was informed by the Titanic’s builder Thomas Andrews that the Titanic was doomed and was going [...]

By Ralph Cantos This interesting photograph taken in January of 1923 shows Pacific Electric no. 175 (AKA “Submarine”) awaiting its departure time in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel. [...]

By Ralph Cantos By the mid-1940s, more than 600 single end PCCs had been delivered and were in service across the USA. Most of the nearly identical air-electric PCCs had been built by the St. [...]