1370 Express to Los Angeles
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Pacific Electric Express no. 1370 heads up no. 1208 interurban on a northbound lash-up to Los Angeles.
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PE steel combine 1370 (and 1371) mated with the “San Berdoo” twelves from the 1200-1215 class – like 1208 in the photo, above.
It’s unfortunate that these venerable PE steel cars no longer exist. Especially the ones painted in the famed “butterfly” livery.
In the late 1940’s PE studied the possibility of equipping one of the 1370-class combines with an EMD V-6 567 engine and using it with wrecker 003 on de-electrified (or never-electrified lines) to deal with derailments. Alas, this didn’t happen; PE electricians fitted some of the leased SP SW-1’s with wiring for jumper cables to power the wrecker. All of the twelves except 1299, and combines 1370-1376 were all scrapped in 1950-51. The Korean War had jacked up the price of scrap steel, and they all went to the Kaiser mill in Fontana to be sacrificed.