The last Red Car rail line shut down in 1961. But the iconic photo reflecting the decline of once-mighty rail in Los Angeles was taken 60 years ago. It showed old Pacific Electric red cars sitting ...

Fifty years ago, this same corridor was part of the Pacific Electric Railway, or Red Car system, which provided mass transit service to Southern California from 1901 to 1961.

The Pacific Electric Railway – once considered one of the best public transit systems in the world – may now only exist in memories and movies, but a reminder of its heyday was recently ...

Passengers have gotten off of a Pacific Electric trolley traveling on the Mount Lowe Railway in the San Gabriel Mountains to throw snowballs. Photo dated: January 25, 1933.

A majority of railroad shippers would support a transcontinental merger so long as it included concessions such as full ...

The arrival of the first Pacific Electric Railway cars in San Bernardino, on July 11, 1914, at the Pacific Electric station on Third Street commemorated the Pacific Electric connection to Los Angeles.

Pacific Electric Railway Station, with the depot in Glendora, circa 1937. The Santa Fe Railway even took oranges from Glendora to the White House, for President William Howard Taft to enjoy.

Pacific Electric Railway (PE) had acquired the El Dorado System’s 33 passenger buses in April of 1930, therefore expanding public transportation choices on both rubber and rail.

The railway switched hands a couple of times before ending up with Henry Huntington of the Pacific Electric Railway, who operated it as an extension of his large Red Car system that ferried ...

Exhibit at Union Station tells untold tale of Yellow Car electric trolleys that ran until ’63 and mimic existing lines.