800 on the Oak Knoll Line
Pacific Electric no. 800 and two other units head southbound on the Oak Knoll line toward Huntington Drive and El Molino Junction in San Marino on January 1, 1938. Celebrating San Marino’s [...]
702 at El Molino
January 2, 1950: Pacific Electric no. 702 heads up a three-unit train that’s pulling into San Marino’s El Molino Junction. It’s part of that year’s Rose Parade Special [...]
107 at Huntington Drive in San Marino
It’s 1940 and Pacific Electric no. 107 is at San Marino Station (located at Huntington and San Marino Drives). It’s a local car about to make a northbound run on Sierra Madre [...]
740 on the Oak Knoll Line
Pacific Electric car no. 740, 711 and another unit head south bound on the Oak Knoll Line approaching Huntington Drive in San Marino. This is part of the New Years Day rush service to and from [...]
End of the Line for 5144
By Ralph Cantos National Metals & Steel was never a pleasant place to visit for rail fans. Starting about 1955, steam locomotives, mostly Southern Pacific, starting arriving at on Terminal [...]
The Last A Car Southbound at 7th and Hill
This amazing Roy Finley photo captures the railfan riders of the final Los Angeles Railway A Line car (no. 90) on June 30th, 1946, at 4AM at the intersection of 7th and Hill streets in downtown [...]
Going Down with Trolley Poles Held High
By Ralph Cantos Like the mighty ocean liner “Titanic,” the once great Pacific Electric Railway struck and iceberg in the form of the Highway Department, a City that didn’t give [...]
A Bleak Future Awaits
By Ralph Cantos Like some animal or human being caught up in a slave labor situation, PE no. 5144 (now operated by “slave masters” Metropolitan Coach Lines) is beginning to show the [...]
Traction and the Enemy
By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric car no. 5144 sparkles in the mid-day sun on this very sad day, May 31, 1953. This is the last day of rail service along Santa Monica Blvd. east of Fairfax Ave. As [...]
Deluxe Cars of the LARy
By Ralph Cantos By 1929, the Los Angeles Railway was desperate for a fare increase. The PUC granted a 2-cent fare increase on the provision that the LARy improve the “Spartan [...]
