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Map shows LA’s Red Car system in its 1920s heyday
A new map created by amateur cartographer Jake Berman details Pacific Electric’s sprawling “Red Car” rail network as it appeared in 1926, harkening back to the days when LA was home to one ...
Curbed9y
Mapping the Historic Routes and Few Remains of Los Angeles's Massive Streetcar System
The Militant Angeleno has compiled an extremely cool interactive map showing where the famed Pacific Electric Red Car trolleys ran from 1901 until their final demise in 1953. Back in the day ...
Los Angeles Times9y
Tracking the slow decline of the Pacific Electric Railway Red Cars
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 ...
Los Angeles Times12y
In the Pipeline: Red Cars become part of the ecosystem
Bob Hoenig was generous enough to send me a fascinating map that traced all of the Pacific Electric Railway stops ... memories of actually riding the Red Cars with his parents from Long Beach ...
Los Angeles Daily News6y
Remembering the Red Car: What Southern California ‘light rail’ looked like in 1911 and decades thereafter
When Alan Weeks found out in 1952 that his beloved Red Car trolley, known as the Pacific Electric Railway, would be taken apart, he boarded a rail car with a group of friends in Van Nuys and ...