LARY 3055 on 5th Street
By Ralph Cantos While color photographs of LA’s PCCs during their service on the LATL and LAMTA are plentiful, color photos of them in service under the LARY banner are rare. This beautiful [...]
Pacific Electric 746 at San Vicente Blvd. and Genesee Street
By Ralph Cantos This beautiful photograph taken around 1948-49 shows Pacific electric car no. 746 laying over at San Vicente Blvd. and Genesee Street. Most likely, the 746 is working the [...]
LATL – LAMTA – SCRTD 3165: What might have been
By Ralph Cantos Had the LAMTA not abandoned LA’s excellent PCC system in on March 31,1963, the 164 well-maintained cars might have gone on to render smooth, quiet, pollution free rail [...]
Riding the Heavy Iron on San Pedro Street
By Ralph Cantos One picture is worth a thousand words. The extremely high track and overhead standards to which the City of Los Angeles imposed on the PE and LARY around 1918 is clearly in [...]
LATL 1423: A Long Life Ahead
By Ralph Cantos Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 1423 pulls into the Union Station loop in this early 1948 view. The newly refurbished 1423 looks great for a 25 year old gal. But soon things will [...]
LARY 3060 in Affluent Hancock Park
By Ralph Cantos This 1938 photo from an General Electric advertisement shows Los Angeles Railway car no. 3060 on W. 3rd Street at Windsor Blvd. in LA’s “well-to-do” Hancock [...]
Power Problems on Glendale Boulevard: Buses to the Rescue
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 [...]
