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Why are they where they are, why are they the size they are and why does the building have an extension to 4th Street? By Steve Griffis Being a little obsessed with Los Angeles’s original rail [...]

Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) no. 1706 on “Long Beach Limited” service is photographed at rest at the 6th and Main Street station’s passenger platform. [...]

It’s Macy Street Yards and Pacific Electric freight locomotives nos. 1604 and 1608 are awaiting their next assignment. It’s 1945 per the image information, making this a very early [...]

Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) blimp no. 1545 is captured in this dramatic nighttime shot (with star filters) at 6th and Main Street Station in downtown Los Angeles. Service [...]

Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) blimp no. 1522 rests at a passenger platform on the elevated section of 6th and Main Street Station in downtown Los Angeles. The date is March [...]

Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 626 rests at 6th and Main passenger platforms, probably as part of a railfan excursion. The motorman is seated to the left of his station, while an eager young [...]

By Stephen Dudley Green car 1543 awaits a departure from 6th & Main Station in October 1960. Stephen Dudley Photo and Collection

The number of people at Main Street Station in Los Angeles continued to grow in the early morning hours of April 9, 1961. A scheduled train to Long Beach (single car barely visible on the left) [...]

By Stephen Dudley This picture taken April 6, 1961 at the Main Street Station.  The day was the Thursday before abandonment.  In preparation for the run to Long Beach, the motorman had just [...]