1054 at Municipal Power & Light
From the Jack Finn Collection comes this image of Pacific Electric no. 1054 powering past Municipal Power & Light, possibly in San Pedro, in a photo that is circa 1945.
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The train appears to be headed to Long Beach by way of Wilmington on the Long Beach – San Pedro Line. The Ten Hundreds have just entered the West Basin Line in San Pedro.
Photographer was standing just north of the intersection of Regan and A streets, under where the western approach to the Vincent Thomas Bridge is now.
Was 1054 an ex-Peninsula Railway car? (Peninsula Railway was another railway under the control of the Southern Pacific, which went belly-up ca. 1937.)
Yes, 1054 was part of a group of 8 that were hand-me-downs from the Peninsular Ry.
It use to be car #109 from the defunct Peninsula Ry.