A Little Slice of Life
By Steve Crise The United States of America was engaged in its second year of WW II when Harley L. Kelso made this timely shot of Los Angeles Railway car 934 and Pacific Electric interurban car [...]
Pacific Electric in Snow, January 11, 1949
By Steve Crise Snow in Southern California has always been a big event for residents of Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley and the oddity of snowfall on January 11, 1949, was no exception. [...]
Los Angeles Railway A Line Car 62 on West Temple Street
By Steve Crise Los Angeles Railway Type-C center door “Sowbelly” car 62 is on the A-Line heading east on Temple Street at Parkman Avenue toward downtown Los Angeles. This car will [...]
Pacific Electric 5160 at Park Junction
Above: Pacific Electric 5160 at Glendale and Park. Rod Crossley Photo, Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Collection / MLPSI Collection. By Steve Crise and Michael Patris Looking south [...]
Pacific Electric Diesels at Taylor Yard
By Steve Crise & Michael Patris A very unusual view from inside the depths of Southern Pacific’s Taylor Yard in Los Angeles, California finds these three Pacific Electric diesel switchers [...]
Pacific Electric 1653 General Electric 44-Ton Diesel Locomotive
By Steve Crise This never-before-published photograph by the late E. Rod Crosley documents the usage of smaller diesel electric locomotives by the Pacific Electric Railway. Here PE 1653 is [...]
