Los Angeles & Pacific Balloon Route Conductor’s Hat Badge – Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society

Los Angeles and Pacific Balloon Route conductor’s hat badge, cloisonne over brass, measuring 2.5″ by 2″ and made by the Pettibone Brothers Manufacturing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Michael Patris Collection

April 4, 2025 / Craig Rasmussen Collection, Michael Patris Collection, Other Lines, Steve Crise Collection

Los Angeles & Redondo Railway

Pacific Electric 5160 at Glendale and Park. Rod Crossley Photo, Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Collection / MLPSI Collection.

February 13, 2023 / Michael Patris Collection, Mount Lowe Preservation Society Inc. Collection, Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Collection, Steve Crise Collection

Pacific Electric 5160 at Park Junction

E. Rod Crossley photo of Taylor Yard

February 8, 2023 / Michael Patris Collection, Mount Lowe Preservation Society Inc. Collection, Steve Crise Collection

Pacific Electric Diesels at Taylor Yard

Collector Magazine cover showing Michael Patris as Collector of the Year

January 20, 2022 / Michael Patris Collection

Michael Patris Named 2022 Collector of the Year by Collector Magazine

February 5, 2020 / Michael Patris Collection, Other Lines

RIP KOBE

May 31, 2018 / Edward Langer Collection, Pacific Electric Artifacts

“This is Pacific Electric” (circa 1945)