1603 and 1625 in Culver City
Alan Weeks Photo-Collection
Pacific Electric freight locomotives nos. 1603 and 1625 wait for another unit to pass in this Culver City action shot on the Western Division. The image is dated December 13, 1953.
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Alan Weeks Collection
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Note that the poles are down on 1603 and 1625, indicating that they’re not going anywhere for a while. Also, 1603 was a Baldwin-Westinghouse unit and 1625 was a PE “home brew” product of Torrance Shops. I doubt that that they would work in MU, because the PE-built units (1619-1631) had General Electric control systems. Some passenger cars with GE and Westinghouse controls would MU (300 and 400 class “Blimps” for example, but I don’t think that was true for freight motors.