PERYHS Archives

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION ! Traction Fan Garry Starre did this very photo interesting comparison of what happens to PCCs after they left Los Angeles. Cars #3001, #3072, #3100, & #3165 [...]

Red Car California Fruits & Vegetables, a brand of Paul E. Stone, Grower and Shipper, Exeter, California. Courtesy Beachwood Market, Hollywood, California. Steve Crise Photo, Steve Crise Collection

In this 1972 view, one of LA’s once beautiful PCCs shows the terrible effects of three years of battle on the mean streets of Cairo. As the years passed, more and more of the cars would [...]

Steve Crise of the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society lead a group nighttime photography shoot at the Orange Empire Railway Museum on April 20, 2013. Here is his image of Los Angeles [...]

Steve Crise of the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society lead a group nighttime photography shoot at the Orange Empire Railway Museum on April 20, 2013. Here is his image of Los Angeles [...]

Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority PCC no. 3148 rests on standard gauge trucks at Fairbanks Yard in Long Beach, part of a demonstration tour showing PCCs on the still-popular Long Beach [...]

Pacific Electric car no. 1245 heads up a Special four-car consist as it meets up with a Special two-car consist lead by no. 1240 at Ganesha Junction in Pomona on Sunday, October 1, 1950. Photo [...]

In this beautiful view taken from a private airplane, the camera looks down on Vernon Yard in the summer of 1964. Twenty-five air-electric PCCs have been removed from Vernon Yard for shipment to [...]

Pacific Electric no. 5010 poses with its front doors wide open, beckoning passengers to board America’s most beautiful PCC. From Ralph Cantos: In this 1948 photo, PE’s fleet of 30 [...]

Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority PCC 3077 (numbers and MTA emblem painted over) is loaded aboard a freighter that will take it to the far-off country of Chile in January of 1964. Once [...]