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.
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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.
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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 clicking here.
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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 clicking here.
Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection
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 clicking here.
Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection
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 Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection
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Alan Weeks Collection
From Alan:
Strange that the abandoned Air Line right of way is being converted into a new Light Rail line as I ran across these two Notices in my collection. The first part of a two part abandonment came on September 30, 1953 when service (one round trip a day) was abandoned from Ocean Park- Santa Monica to Los Angeles Main St. Station. If I remember correctly it was not completely abandoned because the Interstate Commerce Commission did not give permission to abandon the line.
So the franchise car ran once a day from 11th Ave. in Los Angeles to Amoco Tower at the Four track main line on Long Beach Blvd. (The present Blue Line runs on the same right of way as the four track main line did.) The second part was abandoned on October 27, 1953. I remember riding both last trips.
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” I’ve also been building for Microsoft’s Train Simulator. The simulator is old and obsolete by today’s standards, but thanks to some intrepid third party modelers, code writers and tweakers out there, the old sim has been improved far beyond what MS had originally released in 2001. I have made dozens of PE cars, locomotives, and freight cars. I’ve done almost the whole 950 class Venice cars, leaving off at the last couple with the odd window patterns. There’s about a dozen Tens, “Portlands”, assorted box motors and all the Portland RPO’s. I’ve been very partial to the Venice Short Line and made models to populate a little module of the VSL in the 1930s, the Ocean Park car house being the center piece. The sim’s “game engine” that drives it is very old and does not support models with a high number of “polygons”, all the triangles that make up the model. So I have to try to keep detail to a minimum.
Thanks for sharing, Tim!
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.