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Why was Pacific Electric Railway dismantled?

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Pacific Electric in brief

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A Downtown Walking Tour

LARY in Wartime
Los Angeles Railway in brief
(with statistics and photos)

Pacific Electric tours

Tour of the San Pedro via Dominguez Line (UPDATED 2008)

Tour of the Glendale-Burbank Line

Tour of the Hollywood Boulevard Line (UPDATED 2008)

Tour of the Venice Short Line (UPDATED 2008)

Tour of the Santa Monica Boulevard-San Fernando Valley Line (UPDATED 2008)

Tour of the Sierra Vista Local Line and Pasadena Short Line

Tour of the Santa Monica via Beverly Hills Line

Tour of the Redondo Beach via Playa Del Rey Line

A Tour of the Western-Franklin Line ( NEW)

When Buses Started Running in Los Angeles

The Carless Majority: A History of Transit Ridership in Central Los Angeles

The 1933 Light Rail Rapid Transit Plan for Los Angeles


In 1941 a Pacific Electric train heads eastbound past the 20th Century Fox "ranch". In the late '60s Century City's 9 million square feet of office space would rise on this site. The street at right is Little Santa Monica Boulevard.