The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority was a public agency formed on July 24, 1951. Originally tasked with planning for rapid transit in Los Angeles, California, the agency would come to opera
Streetcar livery under LAMTA
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The Los Angeles Railway was a system of streetcars that operated in Central Los Angeles and surrounding neighborhoods between 1895 and 1963. The system provided frequent local services which complemen
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…passenger service of the Pacific Electric Railway in 1953, as well as the bus and streetcar lines of the Los Angeles Transit Lines, successor to the Los Angeles Railway. Both companies, as well as MCL subsidiary Asbury Rapid Transit System, were acquired for $34 million (equivalent to $409 million in 2025). The MTA…
Los Angeles Consolidated Electric streetcar at Pico Heights, decorated for Washington's Birthday, c. 1892.
Unit #1407, one of 250 streetcars built for the LARy by the St. Louis Car Company, turns up Marmion Way. The air-operated folding doors were added in the 1930s to permit one-man operation.
Type B, “Huntington Standard”, car at the Southern California Railway Museum.
Type H, all-steel car, at the Southern California Railway Museum.