Western District

Pacific Electric car no. 5149 sits idle at the Sherman Way Terminal on the Van Nuys Line. The date is June 3, 1951. Learn more about this photo and its photographer Alan Weeks by clicking here. [...]

Pacific Electric car no. 5179 negotiates traffic on Van Nuys Boulevard near Sylvan Street on September 27, 1952. Learn more about this photo and its photographer Alan Weeks by clicking here. Alan [...]

Pacific Electric car no. 5135 crosses the Los Angeles River at speed in this Van Nuys Line action shot captured November 15, 1952. Learn more about this photo and its photographer Alan Weeks by [...]

Pacific Electric streetcars, including 5121 and 5139, are captured idled on storage tracks near Sherman Way on September 27, 1952. Learn more about this photo and its photographer Alan Weeks by [...]

Pacific Electric car no. 5179 heads south on the Van Nuys Line at Barham Boulevard in what is today the center of the 101 Freeway. Learn more about this photo and its photographer Alan Weeks by [...]

Pacific Electric car no. 5154 is captured at Sherman Way on the Van Nuys Line. The date is September 27, 1952. Learn more about this photo and its photographer Alan Weeks by clicking here. Alan [...]

Click here to download First Notice (1953) in PDF format Click here to download Second Notice (1953) in PDF format Alan Weeks Collection From Alan: Strange that the abandoned Air Line right of [...]

From digital artist Tim Muir: Here are some of the 950 class cars and a lonely 600-700 class Hollywood at Ocean Park. I’ve been building these for my own use on “routes” [...]

Mostly 1940s footage of the Hollywood Cars of Pacific Electric’s Western Division, collected in an overview format from a variety of sources.

Here’s a terrific promotional newsreel by L. M. DeBell produced in 1927. It includes sequences of Pacific Electric cars on Hollywood Boulevard. Suggested by Ralph Cantos.