Western District

Pacific Electric/MCL PCC no. 5021 pauses for passengers at Brand Boulevard and Glendale Avenue in 1954. Robert T. McVay Photo

Metropolitan Coach Lines (ex-Pacific Electric) PCC no. 5026 turns at Glenoaks and Brand Boulevards headed for the Subway Terminal Building in this image dated April 12, 1955. Robert T. McVay Photo

By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric’s Hollywood cars were true survivors with some of them in service 40 years stateside to 65 years in Buenos Aires. The cars were built in four orders over a [...]

By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric stunned the American Transit Industry when the Railway took delivery of 30 double end PCCs in November of 1940. Not only were PE’s PCCs the first double [...]

By Ralph Cantos This very sad photo was taken in November of 1955 at the entrance of PE’s Subway Tunnel. Car 5154, the former no. 704 (BRILL 1925) is being made ready for its trip to [...]

By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric’s 160 Hollywood cars served the Railway above and beyond all expectations on the far-flung system. Except for the Northern Districts, San Bernardino Line, [...]

Pacific Electric PCC no. 5015 crosses Fletcher Drive’s trestle in this undated photo by Willis “Dutch” Hendrick, donated to the collection by his son Bruce Hendrick. Willis [...]

By Ralph Cantos Ever vigilant and prolific photographer Alan K. Weeks snapped this photo of Hollywood car no. 5179 on Sept. 27, 1952. Time was running out for the San Fernando Valley Line, so [...]

By Ralph Cantos The end has come for the San Vicente Viaduct. It was a cold, dark, and drizzly over cast day, when I snapped this photo with my little “Brownie Box Camera” in January [...]

The end nears for the Pico and San Vicente Viaduct in this late 1961 view of the abandoned bridge. Ralph Cantos Collection