Donald Duke Collection

By Steve Crise As we approach the height of the summer vacation season, we present this advertisement from an unknown Southern California newspaper offering excursion fares to local Southern [...]

By Steve Crise Late in the afternoon in July 1947, eighteen-year-old photographer Donald Duke captured this shot of a Pacific Electric Railway two-car train of “elevens” speeding inbound towards [...]

Pacific Electric PCC no. 5012 is captured on Brand Boulevard by Donald Duke in 1951.

Pacific Electric 1218 crossing the Santa Ana River on April 7th, 1945. Charles D. Savage Photo, Donald Duke Collection

An inbound 800-class interurban car rolls along the shore line of the blue Pacific at an unknown location. It was a place where the line ran behind houses along the beach. Charles D. Savage [...]

Pacific Electric Catalina Special no. 4611 leads a three-unit train down the viaduct at the 6th and Main Street station in downtown Los Angeles on its way to the Catalina terminal in San Pedro. [...]

United States Maritime Commission (Pacific Electric) CalShip specials, lead by no. 4604, wait for the whistle to blow and complete the journey of workers back to downtown Los Angeles. The image [...]

Pacific Electric freight locomotive no. 1620 is captured nearing a grade crossing in Rialto, with two men riding along on the rear pilot. It’s wash day to the left rear of the image. [...]