Streetcars in Los Angeles
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Streetcars in Los Angeles over history have included horse-drawn streetcars and cable cars, and later extensive electric streetcar networks of the Los Angeles Railway and Pacific Electric Railway and
1870: A horse-drawn streetcar of the Spring & Sixth railway in front of the Pico House
Cable car on Broadway just north of 2nd Street looking south, Los Angeles, c. 1893–1895
A Los Angeles Railway electric streetcar, 1891
"Red car" of the Pacific Electric
Los Angeles Railway
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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
Streetcars in Los Angeles
…Streetcars in Los Angeles over history have included horse-drawn streetcars and cable cars, and later extensive electric streetcar networks of the Los Angeles Railway and Pacific Electric Railway and their predecessors. Also included are modern light rail lines…
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.