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 Pacific Electric Railway Company, nicknamed the Red Cars, was a privately owned mass transit system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars, interurban railway cars, a
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…it subsequently purchased the bus and streetcar lines then being operated by Metropolitan Coach Lines, which had taken over 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…
Pacific Electric Building and Main Street
Old Mission Trolley streetcar of the Pacific Electric makes a stop at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, 1905.
Three PE tickets. The top two (front and back views) between downtown LA and Santa Monica, the bottom for a transfer from Hollywood to the San Fernando Valley.
Pacific Electric #1001 at the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris, California.