Pacific Electric
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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
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.
Hawthorne–El Segundo Line
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The Hawthorne–El Segundo Line was an interurban railway route of the Pacific Electric Railway. It was built to transport oil from the Standard Oil Refinery in El Segundo and also saw passenger service
El Segundo, 1914
The line to El Segundo was constructed primarily to transport oil from the Standard Oil Refinery, seen here in 1920. (The Hawthorne–El Segundo Line is at the upper right.)