By Ralph Cantos In a a scene all to typical in post-World War II Los Angeles, Hollywood car no. 5120’s “right of passage” is challenged by a 1947 Cadillac Fleetwood sedan. The [...]
Here’s a neat animation created by Eriks Garsvo showing a modern-day view of the old Los Angeles River Pacific Electric bridge pilings, with a Then-and-Now animation re-creation.
By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric PCC no. 5023 shows the the terrible effects of 4 years storage in the dank confines of PE’s Subway Terminal tunnel. Some of the cars looked somewhat better, [...]
By Ralph Cantos These two photos, taken about ten years and ten thousand miles apart, are remarkably similar in the fact that they both show the fantastic ability of PE’s Hollywood cars to [...]
By Ralph Cantos This beautiful photo of former Pacific Electric no. 754 was taken in late 1952. The 754 was the first Hollywood car to go into service in Buenos Aires. The photo was taken just [...]
By Ralph Cantos This beautiful photograph taken in November of 1927 shows a 2 car train of 950s with no. 955 on the head end. The occasion was the first test train over the newly completed [...]
By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric car no. 5111 poses for the camera of the late Jeff Moreau on this overcast day at Pico Boulevard and Main Street in Santa Monica. It’s a Sunday afternoon [...]
By Ralph Cantos This fantastic faded shot of Pacific Electric Box Motors Nos. 1457 & 1458 working MU on the Santa Monica Air Line was taken about 1948. The two units have just crossed the [...]
By Ralph Cantos By the mid 1930s, the Pacific Electric was operating a fleet of more than 500 rail cars. The newest of them, the 100s, had just arrived from St. Louis Car Company in 1930; all 160 [...]
By Ralph Cantos Last runs of any streetcar or interurban line is usually a sad, but uneventful occasion. However, that was not the case on Tuesday afternoon, September 29, 1953, when Pacific [...]
