A Red Car - Car 717 serves as our subject for a night photography seminar put on by Steve Crise at the Orange Empire Rail Museum. #717 is a "Hollywood Car" type interurban that was bui... (more)

A replica Pacific Electric 500 comes to a stop across from the San Pedro ferry building. The old PE station used to be here, to the left of frame. Nowadays this is tourist run from the cruise ship... (more)

The day before Cal's last trip to the Rose Bowl.......

The Pacific Electric 501 has just departed the Marina Station in Long Beach en-route to the Cruise Center Station on a very nice evening in Southern California.

This was once the Pacific Electric bridge across the Santa Ana River, carrying Big Red Cars from San Bernardino to Redlands, as well as juice jacks dragging strings of orange filled box cars. Toda... (more)

PE 418 and 498 are both in Carhouse 4 at the Orange Empire Railway Museum. Called Blimps because of their size (steam RR passenger car size), these interurbans started their lives in commuter ser... (more)

The actual operator is the FC General Urquiza, a suburban operator in Buenos Aires that purchased all of the Pacific Electric PCC cars, 1100 series and a large number of ex Hollywood cars of the 5... (more)

Is this little train station the longest surviving in the US since it lost its tracks? Pacific Electric service to the Pacific Branch Soldiers Home appears to have been dropped between 1925 and 19... (more)

For Pacific Electric Weekend OERM rolls out most of the PE cars. "Blimp" #418 retired in 1961.

Rolling through Macy St with a crowd of Rose Parade afficionadoes is a train of three wooden 1000 series cars, one of the more famous of PE’s car groups. The late Ivan Baker recorded this view. ... (more)

Pacific Electric had two major 4-track main lines. This one from east of Macy St carried many routes; here 1113 races east to Pasadena via the ‘Short Line’. Harold F Stewart, a PE motorman of ma... (more)

In Pasadena CA January 1st is Rose Parade day (as well as that other event with a pigskin) and PE used cars from all over to ferry passengers from downtown LA. When that occurred PCC cars operate... (more)

Pacific Electric ran but 30 PCC cars over their huge network. Normally they operated GLENDALE-BURBANK as seen here but briefly in 1941-42 they also served the VENICE SHORT LINE and its short-turn... (more)

A high-speed mainline? Hardly, but the former Pacific Electric Santa Ana line would be an ideal candidate to be rebuilt for light rail use, but the fact that it connects two counties creates fund... (more)

Beautiful replica of the old PE 500-class