Car 149 on Flickr.

1914

In this photograph, car 149 leaves Santa Monica en route to the Long Wharf (near Sunset Blvd.) This car was built by American Car Co. in 1902 for the San Bernardino Valley Traction Co. and later purchased by the Pacific Electric Railway Company. The car was eventually scrapped in 1926.

Car 104 on Flickr.

circa 1910

Pacific Electric Car 104 was originally Riverside & Arlington No. 104. Builder and date unknown. It was sold to Associated Studios (presumably as a “Prop”) on April 28, 1926.

Car 531 on Flickr.

circa 1920

A Pacific Electric motorman poses by his train at the Pasadena Southern Pacific depot, which Pacific Electric served from 1912 until 1933. The depot was located on the east side of Broadway (now Arroyo) south of Colorado.

6th and Main Station on Flickr.

circa 1942

Cars 379 and 4516 at the 6th & Main Streets elevated station during World War II. Number 379 is from the Southern Pacific electric commuter system called “Interurban Electric Railway” which served many cities in the San Francisco eastbay area. Car 4516 was ex-Northwestern Pacific Railway, another electric suburban comuter operation in Marin County, north of San Francisco. Both cars were used during World War II to serve the Calship shipyard on Terminal Island, and were owned by the United States Maritime Commission. In the later (postwar) 1940s, these cars were rebuilt into (NWP cars) 300 and (IER cars) 400 series “Blimps,” many of which closed out the last Pacific Electric Railway “Red Car” line to Long Beach in 1961.

Pacific Electric and Wells Fargo & Company Express on Flickr.

circa 1905

Pacific Electric Railway motormen pose on car 603 to San Pedro with employees of Wells Fargo & Company Express.

Daly St. Bridge - South Pasadena Line on Flickr.

1906

Pacific Electric passenger rail car no.212 passes over the Daly Street Bridge on the South Pasadena Line.

Pacific Electric City Car on Flickr.

circa 1914

This passenger rail car was originally built for the San Bernardino Traction Company, a company that was acquired by the Pacific Electric Railway Company in 1910.

1299 at Watts on Flickr.

circa 1956

Car 1299 at Watts Carhouse. An unidentified conductor is at left and motorman David Gillespie is at right.
Photo donated by Jim Walker, January 2003