Western District

By Ralph Cantos This old, faded photo taken in December 1927 is very unusual and historic. The camera looks in an easterly direction as a 3-car train of Pacific Electric 1100-class suburban cars [...]

The south end of Catalina Avenue at Avenue I in Redondo Beach marked the end of the tracks for the PE Del Rey Line, when this area was called Clifton or Clifton by the Sea. This is also the north [...]

By Ralph Cantos Like the mighty ocean liner “Titanic,” the once great Pacific Electric Railway struck and iceberg in the form of the Highway Department, a City that didn’t give [...]

By Ralph Cantos Like some animal or human being caught up in a slave labor situation, PE no. 5144 (now operated by “slave masters” Metropolitan Coach Lines) is beginning to show the [...]

By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric car no. 5144 sparkles in the mid-day sun on this very sad day, May 31, 1953. This is the last day of rail service along Santa Monica Blvd. east of Fairfax Ave. As [...]

Pacific Electric no. 5010 poses with its front doors wide open, beckoning passengers to board America’s most beautiful PCC. From Ralph Cantos: In this 1948 photo, PE’s fleet of 30 [...]

A photo postcard from 1955 depicting a Pacific Electric PCC on Brand Boulevard in Glendale. From Ralph Cantos: 955 POST CARD of Beautiful Brand Blvd. GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA: A city. any city, is [...]

Wonderful Venice Beach station, about 1911, is seen here as a 4 car train of LAP / PE 700s bound for Santa Monica discharges passengers. The train will enter the “Trolley Way” at this [...]

View of Vineyard Junction, Sears and Roebuck Pico store and the West Blvd Bridge. Cooper Lumber Company, the business located in the lower left hand area of the image, has just suffered a [...]

Pacific Electric car no. 675 waits at a stoplight at the intersection of Hill Street and West First Street, below a classic Foster & Kleiser billboard advertising the Admiral [...]