W Line

Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 1281 negotiates traffic on the W Line in this undated photo. Philipott and Baldridge Collection

Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 1215 is photographed on W Line service in this undated image. Philipott and Baldridge Collection

From traction fan Bill Volkmer comes this interesting photo taken some time between the May 1955 rail abandonments and the end of the W line rail service in late 1956. There is not much [...]

Here’s a terrific photo by Raymond E. Younghans, capturing L.T. Gotchy on a milk box in the middle of Temple Street, snapping Los Angeles Railway cars (S Line H-3 and W Line 1500) on [...]

  Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) car no. 1439 rolls on Figueroa at 11th Street in this image captured the last week of W Line service: November 11, 1956. Note the Felix [...]

  Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) W Line car no. 1445 picks up passengers while heading southbound on Broadway at 6th Street on April 10, 1956.   L. Swanson Photo, [...]

  Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) car no. 1443 pauses for the light at Washington and Rimpau near the west end of the W Line. The date is October 1956.   Bill Whyte [...]

  Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) car no. 1443 rolls away from the photographer in this moody W Line shot dated October 1956.   Bill Whyte Photo, Steve Crise Collection

  A terrific interior view of Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) car no. 1443 as it pauses at the west end of the W Line at Washington Blvd. and Rimpau. The image is dated [...]

  Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) car no. 1441 rolls down North Broadway at Alta Street, near the east end of the W Line at Lincoln High School, in October 1956. Los [...]