Postcard: Los Angeles railcar 5028 near Downtown Los Angeles (1940)
Archive: Henrik Boye.
Photographer: Donald Duke.
Publisher: Lyman E. Cox.
Date: November 24, 1940.
City: Los Angeles (United States).
The picture shows
Pacific Electric Railway (PE)
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Los Angeles railcar 5028, manufacturer Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company, series 5000, signed Los Angeles.
Description
Vanishing
Vista
The Pacific Electric Railway, on November 24, 1940, restored all-rail service to the cities of Glendale and Burbank via the subway terminal in downtown Los Ageles. To initiate service new streamlined suburban cars built by the Pullman-Standard Car Company were placed in service. These streamlined cars were the longest PCC type equipment built at that time, and were the first such cars to be equipped with multiple-unit control and couplers. The 5000 class cars received great ovation from patrons of the line. A group of the cars were tried on the Venice Short Line, however, they were later placed on the Glendale-Burbank Line until abandonment of the line in 1956.
While the Pacific Electric was still in the passenger busines on its south and north lines, the PCC cars were placed in dead storage in the lod subwayterminal tubes. The cars deteriorated badly due to the moisture, however, they were sold three years later to the General Urquiza Railroad, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The cars are still operating on this system today.
In this scene, No. 5028 makes an inspection tour of the Pacific Electric facillities at Santa Monica while on a rail boff excursion.
Pacific Electric Railway
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