PERYHS Archives

Taken in November 1959, this time-lapse photo shows an evening train to Long Beach as it slows and then stops at Los Cerritos. The way the headlight lit up the track as the train approaches makes [...]

A rush hour Long Beach limited train in December of 1960 running southbound just after crossing Wardlow Road. Stephen Dudley Photo and Collection

Taken in December 1960, this time-lapse photo captures a northbound evening train running on the single track approach to the Los Angeles River bridge and then over the bridge. Stephen Dudley [...]

By Ralph Cantos As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. While the exact details of these photos are lost to history, just looking at these photos taken on a damp March [...]

By Ralph Cantos This beautiful photograph taken around 1931 shows one of LARY’s refurbished H-3 class cars rolling along Spring Street near 6th. The car is working the M line. In June of [...]

By Ralph Cantos Here is another colorized postcard of Downtown Los Angeles, a two-car train of what appears to be single pole 800s making its way eastbound on 6th Street at Spring. The postcard [...]

By Ralph Cantos This spectacular photograph of the Pacific Electric’s San Pedro Station shows a 3-car train of 10 Hundreds waiting departure time to Los Angeles, as a former Portland [...]

By Ralph Cantos This colorized postcard from 1930 looks north on Broadway at about 9th Street. When these colorized post cards were produced, some “fine” street details were lost, [...]

By Ralph Cantos This remarkable aerial photograph taken around 1938-39 shows the LARY Pico-Rimpau Loop and Pacific Electric’s Vineyard Junction yard. This photo must have been taken on a [...]